 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 - Página 6831927Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1750 - 228 páginas
...the public curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an adl of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 páginas
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an a£r. of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even... | |
 | 1785 - 596 páginas
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an an of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 638 páginas
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, 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 when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...but, I hope, not an indiscreet one; he has great enthusiasm and some fire.' H. More's Memoirs, i. 403. interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness...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 - 1799 - 648 páginas
...but, I hope, not an indiscreet one; he has great enthusiasm and some fire.' H. More's Memoirs, i. 403. interest, his fear, his 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 318 páginas
...sense of both. 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... | |
 | 1803 - 290 páginas
...D and how scon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge. and makes haste to...public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, hia fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 páginas
...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 faultsOr failings of their friends, even when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...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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