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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides - Page 139
by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 874 pages
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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 no more milk, and so they are gone to milk...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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 no more milk, and so they are gone to milk...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...will gratify themselves at ¡my expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; io they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which oill yield such people uo more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I hare acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense: truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sirj is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 16

1821 - 372 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain'men, and will gratify themselves at any expense : truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. 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 no more milk, and so they are gone to milk...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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 no more milk, and so they are gone to milk...
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