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" The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath... "
The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides ... - Página 244
por James Boswell - 1831
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Comprising a Series of His Epistolary ...

James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...me." " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. as they are found in the corrected edition of his...ran thus :— " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre. Though few boys make their own...
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Mrs. Thrale, Afterwards Mrs. Piozzi: A Sketch of Her Life and Passages from ...

Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 páginas
...: " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." Is he upon oath in relating an anecdote ? or could he do more than swear to the best of his recollection...
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Mrs. Thrale, Afterwards Mrs. Piozzi: A Sketch of Her Life and Passages from ...

Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 páginas
...: " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.'' Is he upon oath in relating an anecdote ? or could he do more than swear to the best of his recollection...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 páginas
...Elsewhere he says, ' the writer of an epitaph mxist not be considered as saying nothing but what is trne. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath ' " ... (Firth). P. 7, 1. 1. are ... too ... topicks, treat of common subjects in too elaborate and...
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Life and Art of Joseph Jefferson: Together with Some Account of His Ancestry ...

William Winter - 1893 - 388 páginas
...epitaphs: "The writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true. Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." Morris, William Twaits, Luke Usher, William Warren, Warrell, William B. Wood, Mrs. Downie, Mrs. Durang,...
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Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian

Sir Richard Steele - 1896 - 580 páginas
...authorities, however, held a less humane opinion. Johnson, who had himself been a schoolmaster, said ' There is now less flogging in our great schools than...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' (Hill's Boswell, 1887, ii. 407.) He attributed his own knowledge of the classics to the persistent...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 páginas
...his day on this subject. Dr. Johnson thought that a diminution of flogging involved less learning, ' so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' N°- 158. Friday, August 31, 1711 [STEELE. o Xos haec novimus esse nihil. — M*RTIAL, xiii. 2. UT...
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The Spectator: no. 81-169; June 2, 1711-Sept. 13, 1711

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 páginas
...his day on this subject. Dr. Johnson thought that a diminution of flogging involved less learning, ' so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' Na 158. Friday, August 31, 1711 [STEELE. o Nos hcec novimus esse nihil. — MARTIAL, xiii. 2. UT of...
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A History of Winchester College

Arthur Francis Leach - 1899 - 674 páginas
...the Winchester record to-day, he is still of the opinion, aimed at Dr. Warton in his own days, that " there is now less flogging in our great schools than...then less is learned there; so that what the boys gain at one end they lose at the other." Thanks also to the Second-master, the Rev. G. Richardson,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Parte 2

1899 - 628 páginas
...writer of an epitaph should not be considered as saying nothing but what is strictly true ; but that allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated...praise. " In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon his oath." Even previous to Puritan times, and following immediately upon the suppression of monasteries,...
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