Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 651
... Truth in the book is crippled . Truth in the intellectual system is a skeleton . Truth in personality is life and power . Always the printed phi- losophy is less than the speaking philosopher . Wallace and Bruce had their power over the ...
... Truth in the book is crippled . Truth in the intellectual system is a skeleton . Truth in personality is life and power . Always the printed phi- losophy is less than the speaking philosopher . Wallace and Bruce had their power over the ...
Page 679
... truth . Lying is the great temptation to which physicians are exposed . Clergymen are expected to tell such portions of truth as they think will be useful . Their danger is the suppressio veri , rather than direct false- hood . Lawyers ...
... truth . Lying is the great temptation to which physicians are exposed . Clergymen are expected to tell such portions of truth as they think will be useful . Their danger is the suppressio veri , rather than direct false- hood . Lawyers ...
Page 681
... truth , and so have a rush and a score or two of them crushed to death in five minutes ? These extreme cases test the question of the absolute inviolability of truth . It seems to me that no one virtue can be allowed to exclude all ...
... truth , and so have a rush and a score or two of them crushed to death in five minutes ? These extreme cases test the question of the absolute inviolability of truth . It seems to me that no one virtue can be allowed to exclude all ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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