 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 страници
...just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble aiithour and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel,...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death !" Garrick, who I can attest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 страници
...a just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward' : a scoundrel,...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 страници
...this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. 'Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward1: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest... | |
 | 1860 - 636 страници
...within the range of Dr. Johnson's rough remark on Bolingbroke's literary bequest to Mallett : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel • and a coward — a scoundrel,...religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not ' the resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a ' beggarly Scotchman to draw the... | |
 | 1874 - 596 страници
...Mallet, to the great offence of what Boswell calls all 'well-principled men,' Dr. Johnson exclaimed, ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel...charging ' a blunderbuss against religion and morality; and a coward ' because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left ' half-a-crown to a beggarly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 страници
...a just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel...against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger... | |
 | 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 - 606 страници
...which Dr. Johnson pronounced on the posthumous appearance of Bolingbroke's philosophical works : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel...blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because lie had not resolution to fire it off himself, but * We find in the Hurdwicke Papers (Coxe, ii. 342)... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 страници
...with a just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the author and his editor : " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel,...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death." (Boswell's ' Life of Johnson')... | |
 | 1817 - 650 страници
...sentence upon the noble author and his editor. Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a soundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his d'eath !" Boswell'» Life of Johnson, vol. 1, p. 240, 8vo. 1793. You are now in a newly ascertained situation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 страници
...just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble author and his editor. " Sjr, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for...against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger... | |
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Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his... 
