8 de outubro de 2021

Dicionário, cavalo e joelho

    "A lady once asked him how he came to define Pastern the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as she expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.' "

Boswell, James, Boswell's Life of Johnson, London, Oxford University Press, 1953, p. 211.


Samuel Johnson
Joshua Reynolds
1756-1757

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