Falsehood

Falsehood is never easy, dear Eleanor; people seize it as a shield, and it turns to a spear in their hands, to pierce the bosoms it was meant to protect.

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

We need to ensure that these undemocratic forces are not able to smuggle themselves into power such that, like in our story, we end up with the monstrosity that we have seen around Africa, with the head of 'Falsehood' and the body of 'Truth'.

Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs 2000

We need to ensure that these undemocratic forces are not able to smuggle themselves into power such that, like in our story, we end up with the monstrosity that we have seen around Africa, with the head of 'Falsehood' and the body of 'Truth'.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

We sang, rolling our eyes at each other in exaggerated coquetry, the funny little love-song called 'Falsehood'.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

'Falsehood' (mithyâtva) belongs to what admits of being terminated by the cognition of the real thing -- such cognition being preceded by conscious activity (not by mere absence of consciousness or knowledge).

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

Which of course still means that the only "Falsehood" is this one: "the extras.

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London has recently seen a revival of Double Falsehood, a play originally presented at Drury Lane in 1727 by the Shakespearian critic and scholar Lewis Theobald, who claimed it was an adaptation of a lost play by Shakespeare.

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But as Milton said of truth in his great speech Areopagitica, "Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter."

John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

But as Milton said of truth in his great speech Areopagitica, "Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter."

John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

The RSC is not reviving The Double Falsehood itself; instead, director Gregory Doran has done some literary detective work and is presenting a piece that uses both Falsehood and the original story of Cardenio in Cervantes's Don Quixote – the inspiration for the play by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, recorded as being performed at court in 1612.

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