 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 Seiten
...writer of an epitaph should not be conEpitaph si(jere(j 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. — Sayings Collected by Dr. Burney, 1775. Self There is no being so poor and so contempEstimation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 492 Seiten
...me." " 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...lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." " There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there ; so that what... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1885 - 568 Seiten
...authorities, however, held a less 1umane opinion. Johnson, who had himself been a schoolmaster, said There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then iess is learned there ; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.' (Napier's Boswell,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 522 Seiten
...me.' ' 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...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other V ' More is learned in publick than in private schools 4, from emulation ; there is the collision of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 Seiten
...me.' ' 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 V ' There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...consequence enough to be flattered. uu 364. Flogging : THERE is now less flogging in our great public schools than formerly, but then less is learned there...what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. /$. a. +07. Floundering well : ' GOLDSMITH ridiculously asserted, that Warburton was a weak writer.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...strictly true. Allowance must be Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. be made for some degree of exaggerated praise. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 407. Estimate of oneself: THERE is no being so poor and so contemptible,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 Seiten
...: " 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... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 Seiten
...: " 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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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... 
