| John Harris - 1855 - 496 ページ
...accuracy. " If a thing happened at one window (says Dr. Johnson), and a child, when relating it, says that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check him ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end." Occasionally refuse to take a hasty answer,... | |
| 1856 - 570 ページ
...Johnson. A CCUSTOM your children to a strict attention to Truth, even in the most minute particulars. If a thing happened at one window, and they, when...pass, but instantly check them : you do not know where deviations from Truth will end. , — Shaftesbury. CtUtf) . — From the Latin. THERE is no doctrine... | |
| James Boswell - 1858 - 464 ページ
...a strict attention to truth even in the most minute particulars. "Accustom your children," said he, "constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window,...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... | |
| Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - 1860 - 248 ページ
...your children to a strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particular*. If a thing happen at one window, and they when relating it say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but mstantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end." — Dr. Johnson, " The... | |
| 1865 - 810 ページ
...Thrale, who was an offender after this sort, " do have more regard to veracity. " Accustom your 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 instantly check them. " You do not know where deviation... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 ページ
...strict attention to truth even in the most minute particulars. 'Accustom your children,' said he, ' constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window,...Boswell. ' It may come to the door ; and when once nn account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 ページ
...strict attention to truth even in the most minute particulars. ' Accustom your children,' said he, ' constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window,...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,... | |
| Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen - 1861 - 418 ページ
...dishonoured. "Accustom your children to a strict attention to Truth, even in the most minute particulars. If a thing happened at one window, and they, when...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... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 ページ
...biographer, ua strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars." Accustom your children constantly to this : " if a thing happened at one...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 ページ
...strict attention to truth even in the most minute particulars. ' Accustom your children,' said he, •' constantly to this : if a thing happened at one window,...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... | |
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