 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 432 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotsman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than inquiry ; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their sup-, posed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood natters his vanity, will not be very diligent to doUx-t it. Neither ought... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth; he will always love it better than inquiry, and. if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 648 pages
...the support of Dr. Johnson's weighty words when he said, " A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." Besides the... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...the union of the crowns in 1807. "A Scotchman," says Dr. Johnson, " must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than inquiry ; and, if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." The remark,... | |
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. 
