Excerpt from Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk: Containing Aphorism on Literature, Life, and Manners; With Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons; Selected and Arranged From Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson He thus defined the difference between phgfi'cal and moral truth Phyfical truth is, w en you tell a thing as it aelually is. Moral truth is, when you tell a thing fineerely and prceifely as it appears to you. I fay fuch a one walked acrofs the fireet; if he really did (0, I told a phyfical truth. If I thought (0, though I {hould have been miflaken, I told 'a moral truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.