 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 Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 724 pages
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 744 pages
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. " 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 Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 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 - 1887 - 570 pages
...example 4 . ' 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 ' ' I am absolutely certain that my Malone's note of March 15,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 598 pages
...example 4 . ' 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 11 1 am absolutely certain that my mode of biography, which gives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...dress, and endeavours to hide the man that he may produce a hero. idler, NO. 84. 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, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 502 pages
...man that he may Wit and Wisdom produce a hero. Idler, No. 84. of Samuel Johnson. 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 - 1888 - 414 pages
...biographer writes from personal knowledge, and • Note VII., Appendix. 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 - 1889 - 558 pages
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. " 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 Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...reserve, I do what he himself recommended, both by his precept and his example. “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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