 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...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 191by James Boswell - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...ravings, under the name of ' Philosophy,' which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men. Johnson hearing of their...Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for place is to be considered as a misfortune, it is some consolation that it is one which Jonson narrowly... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 490 pages
...ravings, under the name of ' Philosophy," which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men. Johnson hearing of their...he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel for place is to be considered as a misfortune, it is some consolation that it is one which Jonson narrowly... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1834 - 482 pages
...ravings, under the name of ' Philosophy,* which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men. Johnson hearing of their...author and his editor : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel aud a coward : a scoundrel for place is to be considered as a misfortune, it is some consolation that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...ravings under the name of " Philosophy," which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men. Johnson, hearing of their...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 pages
...edition first appeared that Dr Johnson pronounced the memorable sentence upon the noble author and hia editor : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward...against religion and morality ; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...ravings, under the name of " Philosophy," which were thus ushered into the world, "gave great offence Dr. Johnson as I could. But I first called on Goldsmith to take leave of him. The jealousy and envy, sentence5 upon the noble authour0 and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel... | |
 | 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 - 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...against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it oft' himself, but * We find in the Hardwickc Papers (Coxe, ii. 342) that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 498 pages
...ravings, under the name of ' Philosophy,' which were thus ushered into the world, gave great offence to all well-principled men. Johnson hearing of their...he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel for place is to be considered as a misfortune, it is some consolation that it is one which Jonson narrowly... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...nothing under the name of ' Philosophy,' which were tints ushered into the world, gave great off? ncc to all well-principled men. Johnson hearing of their...upon the noble author and his editor : — ' Sir, he wn> a scoundrel aud a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality... | |
 | 1835 - 610 pages
...which Dr. Johnson pronounced on the posthumous appearance of Bolmgbroke's philosophical works : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against reiigion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but * \Vc find... | |
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