Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one... The Spectator - Side 1321726Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man,s invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| James Hardie - 1819 - 364 sider
...Truth is, always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is near at hand ; it sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; but a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention constantly on the rack to preserve even a tolerable... | |
| William Pinnock - 1822 - 252 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware: whereas, a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sider
...always consistent with it-self, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at band, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lye is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. Add to all this, that sincerity... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lic is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out : it is always near at hand, and sits y of those pompous titles and lofty epithets, which modern custom has i lie is troubletome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
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