 writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6831927Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick cu^ riosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude,...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 462 pages
...and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, liis gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. ( There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 470 pages
...his example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the pubic curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends even when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...his example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, und makes hnste to gratify the pubic curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...example. " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
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