When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost; and, lo ! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Diamond Dust - Page 151by Eliza Cook - 1865 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...been always active ; and amoral people, because we have never left ourselves time to be vicious." " When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world." " One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth." " Facts, like stones, are nothing in themselves... | |
| 1837 - 684 pages
...to our own times : — thus establishing the truth of a remark which we have somewhere met with ; " when the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world." But we need not be surprised, when itisconsidered, that such is the deceitfulnessof the human heart,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 616 pages
...demolished; yet, Heaven knows if I have—there is a wonderful vigour of constitution in a popular fallacy. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost; and, lo ! the next day it is... | |
| 1840 - 1176 pages
...when the world has once got hold of (we will not use his word, " a lie," but) a misrepresentation, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world again. Her lack of knowledge of Scottish localities, and of accuracy in the details relating to them,... | |
| Henry Drummond - Great Britain - 1842 - 170 pages
...serpentine. It would be well if there were no misnomers on more important subjects, for Bulwer says, " when the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world." The health of the body of any animal is not proportionate to the quantity of food which is swallowed, but... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...dictating friend.— Quarterly Review. THIS is a wonderful vigour of continuation in a popular fallacy : when the world has once got hold of a lie, it is aitonishing how hard it is to get it out oi the world. — Buliccr, FLOWERS FROM THE GARDEN. WILD FLOWERS.... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...digested. A CUTARRKL is niño i imr < out of ten merely the fermentation of a misunderstanding. Tn к agitation of thought is the beginning of truth. WHEN...got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is get it out of the world. As mankind only learnt the science of navigation, in proportion as they acquired... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...society better than could be done by the most elaborate dissertation. — The Doctor. A POPULAR FALLACY. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo ! the next day it is as... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...society better than could be done by the most elaborate dissertation. — The Doctor. A POPULAR FALLACY. When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo I the next day it is as... | |
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