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lie1 a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on proverbial saying, mid 19th century; the speed with which falsehood travels was a classical commonplace, as in the line from Virgil's
Aeneid, ‘Rumour, than whom no other evil thing is faster’. (Virgil's passage is alluded to in the Introduction to Shakespeare's
2 Henry IV (1598), which begins with the stage direction, ‘Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues.’)
See also
ask no questions and hear no lies, Father of Lies at father,
half the truth is often a whole lie,
white lie.
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Thomas Sowell: Books change minds, like the works of Max Lerner, Karl Marx, Edward Gibbons
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 4/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...government at work from the inside. The book that permanently made me a sadder -- and, hopefully, wiser -- man was Edward Gibbons' "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." To follow one of the greatest civilizations of all time as it degenerated...
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Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Vol. 1: The Enlightenment of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764. By J. G. A. Pocock...multivolume exploration of the thought of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), the still...picture of the worlds of the young Edward Gibbon of considerable nuance and...
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Edward Gibbon and Empire.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Edward Gibbon and Empire, edited by Rosamond McKitterick and Roland Quinault...essays commissioned on the occasion of the bicentenary of Gibbon's death in 1794 bears testimony to Gibbon's enduring capacity to instruct with his scholarship and...
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The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon. By BRIAN NORMAN. (SVEC 2002:03) Oxford...study, the first to concentrate so closely on Gibbon and Switzerland, begins by looking at Gibbon's first two trips to that country (1753...
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EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD: Abductor and Mystagogue By...Edinburgh: Ann Barry, 1997, 56pp. Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a name with which we...1996, the bicentennial of the birth of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Turnbull Library...
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EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsideration.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD AND THE COLONIAL DREAM: A Reconsideration...illustrated, pp. 220. No price given. Edward Gibbon Wakefield is a name with which we...1996, the bicentennial of the birth of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Turnbull Library...
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Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives of Civil Government. (Review article: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, and John Pocock: the appeals of whigs old and new).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Barbarism and Religion, Volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon and Barbarism and Religion, Volume II: Narratives...this perspective that Pocock found himself drawn to Edward Gibbon. For here was a major thinker at once distinctly conservative...
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`THE FALL' OF ROME.(Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire')
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...half of the 1700s. His name was Sir Edward Gibbon. He spent his life writing an enormous...the sixth (and last) in 1788, Gibbon's book points to Christianity as...Nevertheless, it made sense to Gibbon and his contemporaries. He wrote...
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A Further Irony: Apocalyptic Readings of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Roman Empire Chapter XV I Hume warned Gibbon that it was coming. After reading the newly-published first volume of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman...of Christianity.(2) Hume told Gibbon as much in a letter in which he also...
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Edward F. Gibbons, 86 Retired Boston police captain
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/5/1995; 357 words
; ...funeral Mass will be said today for Edward F. Gibbons, a retired police captain who...services and bomb squads. Mr. Gibbons died Saturday in Milton Hospital...Rita J. (Doocey); two sons, Edward F. Jr. of Scituate and Richard...
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Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
GIBBON, EDWARD (1737 – 1794) GIBBON, EDWARD (1737 – 1794), the leading English historian...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The affluent only son of Edward Gibbon, a member of Parliament and country gentleman, Gibbon...
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Edward Gibbon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edward Gibbon The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) wrote "The...his father and stepmother. Both Gibbons were officers of the Hampshire militia, which was embodied in May 1760. Gibbon's militia duties prevented his...
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edward Gibbon Wakefield Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) was a British colonial reformer, promoter, and advocate of systematic colonization. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a London land agent's son, was born on March...
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Pearson, (Edward) Hesketh (Gibbons)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Pearson, (Edward) Hesketh (Gibbons) (1887–1964), actor and biographer, whose first book Modern Men and Mummers (1921), contained portraits of...
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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796–1862). Wakefield was a wild youth who demanded to be removed from Westminster School, disliked Edinburgh...
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