 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...original. If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his...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... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...his disposition is imprinted on the hearts of all who knew him. " If the biographer," says Johnson, " writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to...curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity." Of the influence of the latter sentiment, the writer of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 1182
...the pubiirk curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, hia fear, bis gratitude, or his tenderBMB, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are stagy who think it an act of piety to hide thr fault* or failings of their friends, even vbfo they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...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 gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...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 gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his 1 fidelity, and tempt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...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 gratify the public curiosity, there is danger least his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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...public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, Ins fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not... | |
 | Frederick Charles Husenbeth - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...writer is fully aware of the truth of what our great moralist also observes, " that if the bio" grapher writes from personal knowledge, and " makes haste...and tempt " him to conceal, if not to invent.":}: This danger it will be his study to escape, by keeping steadily in view that he is not merely to gratify... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...precept and his example : — • " If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes has' e to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, hi« grmti- ¡ tude, or his tendernen, overpower hit fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to... | |
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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. 
