 | 1821 - Liczba stron: 372
...their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sir, is a cow, which will yield snch people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth, what Jame might I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - Liczba stron: 508
...Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - Liczba stron: 514
...Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If J cmil. 1 have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the eKpence of truth, what fame might I have... | |
 | 1823 - Liczba stron: 582
...themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sir, is a cow which will...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.' That this was the case with Hume, and that while he shook the belief of thousands, he retained for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - Liczba stron: 580
...not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sir, ia a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.' That this was the case with Hume, and that while he shook the belief of thousands, he retained for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - Liczba stron: 370
...themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sir, is a cow which will...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - Liczba stron: 440
...Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth, what fame might I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - Liczba stron: 622
...themselves at any expence. Truth will not aftbrcl sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken e used to say, " And this I do to save you from the gallows." Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed pone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed mvself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 600
...Truth •will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth, what fame might I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 604
...Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people...more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expense of truth, what fame might I have... | |
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Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. 
