 | Early English newspapers - 1785 - 610 pages
...eftuhons, arid brqu.ath ' them, witii enlargements, to the uic and benefit of Libers." ĢI>IT. clous, by deliberately writing it. He was confcious of his...when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to feck for it. He was fomewhat fufceptible of flattery. His mind was fo full of imagery that he might... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1785 - 518 pages
...indulged this only in converfation, for he owned he fometimes talked for viftory. He was too confcientious to make error permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it. He was confcious of his Superiority. He loved praife when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to feek ior it. He was... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1786 - 478 pages
...converfation ; for he owned he fometimes talked for victory ; he was too confcientious to make errour permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it. He was confcious of his fijperiority. He loved praife when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to feek for it. He was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...this only in converfation, for he owned he fometimes talked for victory : he was too confcientious to make error permanent and pernicious by deliberately...it. He was confcious of his fuperiority. He loved praifc when it was brought to him, but was too proud to feek for it. He was fomewhat too fufceptible... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...It is in his written works that his real opinion can be most surely found. ' He owned he sometimes talked for victory ; he was too conscientious to make...permanent and pernicious by deliberately writing it'.' My numerous extracts from the eleven volumes of his collected works will, I trust, not only give a... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...It is in his written works that his real opinion can be most surely found. ' He owned he sometimes talked for victory ; he was too conscientious to make...error permanent and pernicious by deliberately writing it3.' My numerous extracts from the eleven volumes of his collected works will, I trust, not only give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...when he was in company with. a single friend, he would discuss a subject with genuine fairness. But he was too conscientious to make error permanent and pernicious by deliberately writing. it ; and in all his numerous works he earnestly inculcated what appeared to him to be the truth' His-piety... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...the schools of declamation ; but he indulged this only in conversation ; for he owned he sometimes talked for victory : he was too conscientious to make...and pernicious, by deliberately writing it. He was conscious of his superiority. He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...in the schools of declamation ; but he indulged this only in conversation, for he owned he sometimes talked for victory; he was too conscientious to make...permanent and pernicious by deliberately writing it. He wa* coascious of his superiority. He loved praise when it was brought to him, but was too proud to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...when he was in company with a single friend, he would discuss a subject with genuine fairness. But be was too conscientious to make error permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it ; and in all his numerous works, he earnestly inculcated what appeared to him to be the truth ; his... | |
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... but he indulged this only in conversation, for he owned he "sometimes talked for victory. He was too conscientious to make error permanent and pernicious, by deliberately writing it. 
