 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 trang
...at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, bat instantly •check them: you do not know where deviation from truth will end." BOSWELL. " It may come to the door: and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance,... | |
 | 1865 - 810 trang
...children constantly to " this : if a thing happened at one " window, and they, when relating it, " say it happened at another, do not let " it pass, but...do not know where deviation " from truth will end." Under certain circumstances it sometimes happens that all things about us appear out of perspective.... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 trang
...annals of antiquity, her heroic and devoted nature would not have dishonoured. "Accustom your children to a strict attention to Truth, even in the most minute...pass, but instantly check them : you do not know where deviations from Truth will end." — JOHNSON. (THE JEANIE DEANS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.) BORN 1710. DIED... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 trang
...truth even in the most minute particulars. ' Accustom your children,' said he, ' constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window, and they, when...do not know where deviation from truth will end.' Bosivett. ' It may come to the door : and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 trang
...attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars." Accustom your children constantly to this : " if a thing happened at one window, and they, when...another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them — for you do not know where deviation from truth will end." Our lively hostess, whose fancy was impatient... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 trang
...at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, hut instantly check them : you do not know where deviation from truth will end.' Boswdl. ' It may come to the door : and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 trang
...exact and luminous words. Dr. Johnson said, " Accustom your children constantly to this : if a tiling happened at one window, and they, when relating it,...instantly check them. You do not know where deviation from the truth will end." Every man who sees effect« in causes, will fully concur with the Doctor in regard... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 trang
...exact and luminous words. Dr. Johnson said, " Accustom your cliildren constantly to this : if a tiling happened at one window, and they, when relating it,...instantly check them. You do not know where deviation from the truth will end." Every man who sees effects in causes, will fully concur with the Doctor in regard... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 trang
...constantly to thii: if» thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it hapjwncd at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them. You do not know where deviation from the truth will end." Every man who sees effects in cause«, will fully concur with the Doctor in regard... | |
 | S. S. Pugh - 1864 - 240 trang
...may be very readily excused. "Accustom your children," he said to Mrs. Thrale, " constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window, and they, when...do not know where deviation from truth will end." Mrs. Thrale objected to so strict an application of the principle, and replied, "Nay, this is too much.... | |
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Accustom your children (said he) constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. 
