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… for ‘a lie’. 2 . Augustinus, ‘Lying’, in Treatises on Various Subjects, ed. Roy J. Defferrari (Catholic University Press, 1952), ch. 2, p. 54, 86. In his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Samuel Johnson defined the ‘lie’ … in Four Volumes, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell, 4 vol. (Edinburgh, New Haven and London: Edingburgh and Yale University Presses, 2020), vol. 4, p. 38. 5 . Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son. … E. Haggerty, Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 72. 13 . Susan Morgan , ‘Polite Lies: The Veiled Heroine of Sense and Sensibility’, Nineteenth Century …
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