| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence5 upon the noble authourC and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel for...religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution'to fire it oft' himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman7 to draw the trigger... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 490 pages
...for the remarks of the editors are mingled with those of Drummond in such a manner, as to give us no charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death.' " — CROCKER'S JBoswell, vol. i., p. 255.] i By the way, if Jonson's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...are mingled with those of Drummond in such a manner, as to give us no> charging a blunderbuss aga1nst religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not...himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death.'"—CROCKER'S Boswell, vol. i., p. 255.] i By the way, if Jonson's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 498 pages
...are mingled with those of Drummond in such a manner, as to give us no charging a blunderbuss agtrinst religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not...himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death.' " — CROCKER'S Boswdl, vol. i., p. 255.] i By the way, if Jonson's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 482 pages
...for the remarks of the editors are mingled with those of Drummond in such a manner, as to give us no charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left h;,!C a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death.' " — CROCKER'S Boswell,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...that Dr Johnson pronounced the memorable sentence upon the noble author and hia editor : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for...a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it on himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death ! " —... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence5 upon the noble authour0 and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel for...a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it orl himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman" to draw the trigger after his death ! "... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pages
...Johnson pronounced on the posthumous appearance of Bolingbroke's philosophical works : — ' Sir, lie was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging...a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it oft' himself, but * We find in the Hardwickc Papers (Coxe, ii. 342) that Bolingliroke, in Nov. 1 744,... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble author and his editor:—" Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against reb'gion and morality; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 498 pages
...for the remarks of the editors are mingled with those of Drummond in such a manner, as to give us no charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but h-ft half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the triiCgfi' after his death.' "—CROCKER'S Boswell,... | |
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