 When the discovery of secrets is under consideration, there is always a distinction carefully to be made between our own and those of another; those of which we are fully masters as they affect only our own interest, and those which are reposited with...  The Rambler - Page 71edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 322 pages
...is under consideration, there is always a distinction carefully to be made between our own andthose of another ; those of which we are fully masters,...are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery, forthe most part, combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastic and irrational zealots... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...which it expands itself, so as to burst the heart that will not giye it. way. Rambler, vol. i, p. 75. To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that...treachery for the most part combined with, folly.. Ibid. p. 76. The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret, is generally one of the chief motives... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...the happiness or convenience of such as we have no right to expose to hazard. To tell our own secret is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt ; to communicate those with which we are entrused is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. There have, indeed,... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...the happiness or convenience of such as we have no right to expose to hazard. To tell our own secret is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt ; to communicate those with which we are entrused is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. There have, indeed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...or convenience of such as we have no right to expose to hazard. To tell our own secrets is generaly folly, but that folly is without guilt ; to communicate...combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastick and irrational zealots for friendship, who have maintained, and perhaps believed, that... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...or convenience of such as we have no right to expose to hazard. To tell our own secrets is generaly folly, but that folly is without guilt ; to communicate...combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastick and irrational zealots for friendship, who have maintained, and perhaps believed, that... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...and the salutary influence of example. LESSON XLIV. TP tell our own secrets is generally folly, buc that folly is without guilt. To communicate those, with which we are entrusted, 'is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. Who could imagine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...but with this motive, though it be strong in itself, vanity concurs, since every man desires to be most esteemed by those whom he loves, or with whom...combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastick and irrational zealots for friendship, who have maintained, and perhaps believed, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...but with this motive, though it be strong in itself, vanity concurs, since every man desires to be most esteemed by those whom he loves, or with whom...combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastick and irrational zealots for friendship, who have maintained, and perhaps believed, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...which we are fully masters, as they affect only our own interest, and those which are reposited w^th us in trust, and involve the happiness or convenience...combined with folly. There have, indeed, been some enthusiastick and irrational zealots for friendship, who have maintained, and perhaps believed, that... | |
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