 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
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 468 pages
...it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the originili. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 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...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 Ferguson - English essays - 1823
...it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the oriżinal. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...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 - Authors, English - 1823 - 464 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 - 1823 - 478 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 - 1823 - 476 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 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...danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, ot his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt hit* 1 to conceal, if not to invent. There are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 458 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...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 - 1825 - 526 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...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 - 1825 - 600 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...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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