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See: assume, cloak, deceive, disguise, equivocate, fabricate, fake, falsify, feign, lie, misrepresent, palter, pretend, prevaricate, profess, simulate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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and which was most admirable, her profound dissimulations real virtues, and an innate tenderness or affection of the people; by which she so won their hearts, who judge only by outward appearances. For example, to abate the storm that Bacchus' rhetorical dissimulations have unleashed, she descends with garlanded goddesses whose loving countenances prove irresistible to each of the offending winds (6. That is why the Egyptians had sculptures of sphinxes in all their temples, that is, to indicate that divine knowledge, if committed to writing at all, must be covered with enigmatic veils and poetic dissimulations. |
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