...faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by the detection." and he adds: "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. Rut I ascribe no 'faults' to Washington, nor any 'failings,' but those which were the natural accompaniments...

...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. "Let me remember," says...criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country."8 If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge,...

...to let the guiltie escape free."76 Hale himself in another context had observed: "Let me remembet, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise pity due to the country."7 There is a striking contrast between these comments and the observation...

...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. "Let me remember," says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. 7 The strength of Hazlitt's criticism comes from the ability to hold in tension, with his achieved...

...reforming Steele, but he also maintained that, whatever the interpretation, the facts should be told. 'If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth.'68 And he added that another reason for complete honesty was that 'if nothing but the bright...

...are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends," I read, but "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth." Next I took Bate's own biography of Johnson down and, on a whim, skimmed forward to the front pages....

...of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. "Let me remember," says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth. JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SAVAGE (1744) Johnson understood the faults of his friend, the poet Richard Savage,...

...für die Öffentlichkeit nicht geeignet ist.35 Auch Johnsons Schlusssatz aus dem Rambier-Essay 60, "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth,"36 belegt, dass es für ihn keine biographische Wahrheit ohne Tugend gibt. Virtue steuert die...

...characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsick and casual circumstances. . " Let me remember, (says...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth."* What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work, is, the quantity it contains of Johnson's...

...gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. . . .If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there...to be paid to knowledge, to virtue and to truth." From this absolute ideal, no doubt, Johnson departed slightly in his Life of Savage; but here its raison...