Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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... TRUTH WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free - will in thinking , as well as in acting . And though ...
... TRUTH WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free - will in thinking , as well as in acting . And though ...
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... truth , which only doth judge itself , teacheth , that the inquiry of truth , which is the love- making , or wooing of it , the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it , and the belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it ...
... truth , which only doth judge itself , teacheth , that the inquiry of truth , which is the love- making , or wooing of it , the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it , and the belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it ...
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... truth probably is , that he was not more envious , but merely less prudent than his neighbours . His heart was on his lips . All those small jealousies , which are but too common among men of letters , but which a man of letters who is ...
... truth probably is , that he was not more envious , but merely less prudent than his neighbours . His heart was on his lips . All those small jealousies , which are but too common among men of letters , but which a man of letters who is ...
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References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |