Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 135
... ridicule . Honest error is to be pitied , not ridiculed . The object of all the public worships in the world is the same ; it is that great eternal Being who created everything . The different manners of worship are by no means sub ...
... ridicule . Honest error is to be pitied , not ridiculed . The object of all the public worships in the world is the same ; it is that great eternal Being who created everything . The different manners of worship are by no means sub ...
Σελίδα 318
... RIDICULE . It is commonly said , and more par- ticularly by Lord Shaftesbury , that ridicule is the best test of truth ; for that it will not stick where it is not just . I deny it . * A truth learned in a cer- tain light , and attacked ...
... RIDICULE . It is commonly said , and more par- ticularly by Lord Shaftesbury , that ridicule is the best test of truth ; for that it will not stick where it is not just . I deny it . * A truth learned in a cer- tain light , and attacked ...
Σελίδα 319
... ridicule . The overturn of Mary of Medicis into a river , where she was half drowned , would never have been re- membered , if Madame de Vernueil , who saw it , had not said la Reine boit . Pleasure or malignity often gives ridicule a ...
... ridicule . The overturn of Mary of Medicis into a river , where she was half drowned , would never have been re- membered , if Madame de Vernueil , who saw it , had not said la Reine boit . Pleasure or malignity often gives ridicule a ...
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