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Page 129
... Truth is , indeed , not often welcome for its own sake ; it is generally unpleasing , because contrary to our wishes and opposite to our practice ; and , as our attention naturally follows our interest , we hear unwillingly what we are ...
... Truth is , indeed , not often welcome for its own sake ; it is generally unpleasing , because contrary to our wishes and opposite to our practice ; and , as our attention naturally follows our interest , we hear unwillingly what we are ...
Page 131
... Truth , who , as she never varied her point , but moved constantly upon the same line , was easily escaped by the oblique and desultory movements , the quick retreats and active doubles which False- hood always practised , when the ...
... Truth , who , as she never varied her point , but moved constantly upon the same line , was easily escaped by the oblique and desultory movements , the quick retreats and active doubles which False- hood always practised , when the ...
Page 178
... Truth , whom the father of gods and men has sent down to register the demands and pretensions of mankind , that the ... Truth is to record them ; let us approach , and ob- serve the progress of this great transaction . " She then moved ...
... Truth , whom the father of gods and men has sent down to register the demands and pretensions of mankind , that the ... Truth is to record them ; let us approach , and ob- serve the progress of this great transaction . " She then moved ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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