 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching."—JOHNSON. " Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness...lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of instruction, " People have now-adays (said he) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...inten- 6<j. tional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." In his review of Dr. Warton's " Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope," Johnson...subject : " Nothing but experience could evince the frequency of false information, or enable any man to conceive that^ so many groundless reports should... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...series complete; and in every volume of poems something good may be found." In his review of Warton's ' Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope,' Johnson has given the following salutary caution:—" Nothing but experience could evince the frequency of false information, or enable any man to conceive... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 396 pages
...either of an individual or of human nature in general ; if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." " It is more from carelessness about truth, than from...lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." This sentence may appear harsh, and if executed it may have a tendency to decrease the floating stock... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching." JOHNSON. " Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness...lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." In his review of Dr. Warton's " Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope," Johnson has given the following... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 420 pages
...either of an individual or of human nature in general ; if it be false, it is a picture of nothing." " It is more from carelessness about truth, than from...lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world." This sentence may appear harsh, and if executed it may have a tendency to decrease the floating stock... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...« thousand times a-day, if one is not perpetually watching. Johnson. Well, Madam, und you un-¿ht to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than frooi intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. In his review of Dr. Wartou's... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...thousand times a day, if One is not perpetually watching." — JOHNSON. " Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness...lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." Talking of instruction, " People have now-adays (said he) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | Mrs. Hoare (Louisa Gurney) - 1819 - 206 pages
...do not let it pass, but instantly check them ; you -do not know where deviation from truth will end. IT is MORE FROM CARELESSNESS ABOUT TRUTH, THAN FROM...LYING, THAT THERE IS SO MUCH FALSEHOOD IN THE WORLD*." On no account whatever let any thing be said or done in the nursery, that Mamma is not to be told.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching." JOHNSON. " Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness...his review of Dr. Wartou's Essay on the Writings and Genins of Pope, Johnson has given the following salutary cantion upon this subject : ' Nothing but... | |
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Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. 
