 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. 4 Let... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. ' Let... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 470 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. " Let... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...longer suffer by their detection ; we therefore see twhole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness; overpower...invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to bide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 442 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uni form panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...or failings of their friends, even when they can no louger suffer by their detection ; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uni form... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower...panegyric, and not to be known from one another but bv extrinsic and casual circumstances. ' Let me remember, (?ays Hale), when I find mvself inclined... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his s friends may suspect they had too great a partiality...so lie talked always at random. ' It seemed to he adonied with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances.... | |
 | 1828 - 714 pages
...knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his...many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults and failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer from the detection. Such Biography... | |
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If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick 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. There... 
