 | 1750 - 228 sidor
...is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fufFer by their detection : we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniforin panegyric... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 sidor
...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 arc many who think it an zQ. of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even wjien they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 sidor
...the publick curiofuy, there is danger left his intertft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal,...who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or tailings of itl\eir friends, even when they can no longer iufler by their detection ; we therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 sidor
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal,...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fuffer by their detection ; we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his ridelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fuffer by their detection ; we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 sidor
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal,...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fuffer by their detection ; we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 sidor
...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...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fuffer by their detection -, we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 sidor
...the publick curiofity, there is danger left his intereft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernefs, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal,...failings of their friends, even when they can no longer fuffer by their detection ; we therefore fee whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 sidor
...the puolick curiofity, there is dangcrlefthis intercft, his fear, his gratitude, or his tendernels, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many wh» think it an aft of piety to hide the faults or failings of their 'friends, even when they can... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sidor
...some fire.' H. More's Memoirs, 1.403. interest, 36 Conversation best displays character. interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his...see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. " Let... | |
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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... 
