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" Accustom your children (said he) constantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. "
The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ... - Page 356
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Life of Johnson, Volumes 1-2

James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly ! account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.' BOSWBLL. 'It may come to the door : and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance,...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...window, and they, when relating it. say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth...BOSWELL. "It may come to the door; and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.' BOSWELL. 'It mav come to the door: and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened, at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth...BOSWELL: "It may come to the door: and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth...BOSWELL: "It may come to the door: and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different...
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The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians

William Barclay - 1958 - 258 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end ... It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood...
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Friendships Across Ages: Johnson and Boswell : Holmes and Laski

Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 pages
...window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth...BOSWELL: "It may come to the door: and when once an account is at all varied in one circumstance, it may by degrees be varied so as to be totally different...
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Gigantic Book of Teacher's Wisdom

Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 pages
...window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. — SAMUEL JOHNSON Your child is mainly interested in the process of doing things; he is not very concerned...
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Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses, The

John Breeding, PH.D. PH. - 2011 - 207 pages
...window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end. SAMUEL JOHNSON, 31 March 1778, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1 791 There must always...
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