...fortuitous companions will at last relax the strictness of truth and abate the fervour of sincerity. It may be said that at least he preserved the source...from some unexpected pressure or casual temptation." * There is much in this to remind us of Johnson. A penitent, Boswell was almost inclined to believe...

...fortuitous companions will at last relax the strictness of truth and abate the fervour of sincerity. It may be said that at least he preserved the source...from some unexpected pressure or casual temptation." I There is much in this to remind us of Johnson. A penitent, Boswell was almost inclined to believe...

...fincerity. That this man, wife and virtuous as he was, pafled always unentangled through the fnares of life, it would be prejudice and temerity to affirm. But it may be faid, that at leaft he preferved the fource of action unpolluted, that his principles were never fhaken,...