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...language. A man may also act a lie, as by pointing to a wrong direction, when asked the road ; or where a tradesman shuts up his windows to induce his creditors...believe that he is abroad ; for to all moral purposes, speech and action are the same, the former being only a mode of the latter. There are also lies of...

...species of lies. — 5. Lies of the conduct, for a lie may be told in gestures as well as in wards; as when a tradesman shuts up his windows to induce his creditors to believe that he is abroad. — 6. Lies of omission, as when an author wilfully omits what ought to be related : and may we nqt...

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...contend for any sense of words, in opposition to usage, and upon nothing else ; — or a man may act a lie, — as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction, when a traveller inqmres of him his road ; — or when a tradesman shuts up his windows, to Induce his creditors to...

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...or when a tradesman shuts up ha windows, to induce his creditors to believe that he is abroad : lor, to all moral purposes, and therefore as to veracity, speech and action are the nine ; speech being only a mode of action. Or, lastly, there may be lies of omission. A writer...

...usage ; for all senses of all words are founded upon usage, and upon nothing else. Or a man may act a lie ; as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction,...tradesman shuts up his windows, to induce his creditors to helieve that he is abroad : for, to all moral purposes, and therefore as to veracity, speech and action...