White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… defined the ‘lie’ variously as either a ‘criminal falsehood’, a ‘charge of falsehood’ or simply ‘a fiction’. 3 If James Boswell is to be believed, Johnson himself generally used the term rather loosely in his own third sense in conversation, … Dictionnary, accessed on 15 December 2022. https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lie.) 4 . James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, ed. Thomas F. Bonnell, 4 vol. … of working myself up into artificial Spirits: one Day […] when I was vexed & frighted out of my Wits [ … ] I remember Boswell dining here: we [Johnson and herself] talked, we rattled, we flashed, we made extempore Verses, we did so much …
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