| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble aiithour and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss...but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death !" Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind seasoned... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward' : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss...but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind... | |
| 1860 - 636 pages
...Johnson's rough remark on Bolingbroke's literary bequest to Mallett : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel • and a coward — a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss...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 pages
...offence of what Boswell calls all 'well-principled men,' Dr. Johnson exclaimed, ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for 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 - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss...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) - English literature - 1835 - 606 pages
...pronounced on the posthumous appearance of Bolingbroke's philosophical works : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging a 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 - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the author and his editor : " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss...himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death." (Boswell's ' Life of Johnson') 1 tation from the public, who justly... | |
| Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...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...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left halfa-crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his d'eath !" Boswell'» Life of Johnson,... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble author and his editor. " Sjr, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss...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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