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Page 87
Good , like truth , should certainly be attained , where it is possible , by the
straitest road : but where there is only one , and that circuitous , we think , that it
would not be altogether wise to avoid it . But the ridentem dicere verum has
caused ...
Good , like truth , should certainly be attained , where it is possible , by the
straitest road : but where there is only one , and that circuitous , we think , that it
would not be altogether wise to avoid it . But the ridentem dicere verum has
caused ...
Page 137
And , in truth , however little the principles of taste may have to do with the policy
of state , and the morals of a people , yet it is not impossible that the light , by
which they have discovered truth in the one , may also serve to show them how to
...
And , in truth , however little the principles of taste may have to do with the policy
of state , and the morals of a people , yet it is not impossible that the light , by
which they have discovered truth in the one , may also serve to show them how to
...
Page 183
Examen ; or , an Inquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a pretended Complete
History ; shewing the perverse and wicked Design of it , and the many Falsities
and Abuses of Truth contained in it . Together with some Memoirs occasionally ...
Examen ; or , an Inquiry into the Credit and Veracity of a pretended Complete
History ; shewing the perverse and wicked Design of it , and the many Falsities
and Abuses of Truth contained in it . Together with some Memoirs occasionally ...
Page 185
As a book of political and historical information , it is too decidedly a party work to
be of much value , and as our knowledge has far outgrown the author ' s , and we
are in possession of the undisputed truth of most of the facts about which he ...
As a book of political and historical information , it is too decidedly a party work to
be of much value , and as our knowledge has far outgrown the author ' s , and we
are in possession of the undisputed truth of most of the facts about which he ...
Page 330
Foibles , passions , perhaps some vanity , surely some wrong - headedness ,
these he scorned to conceal , for he sought truth , wrote on truth , was truth . He
honestly told when he had missed or mistaken it . His descendants , not blind to
his ...
Foibles , passions , perhaps some vanity , surely some wrong - headedness ,
these he scorned to conceal , for he sought truth , wrote on truth , was truth . He
honestly told when he had missed or mistaken it . His descendants , not blind to
his ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Retrospective Review.., Volume 7 |
| Editor | Henry Southern |
| Contributors | David Sampson Maurice, Charles and Henry Baldwyn |
| Publisher | Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Aug 2007 |
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