 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...againft religion and morality ; a coward, becaufe he had not refolution to fire it off himfelf, but fcft half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death!" Garrick, who I can atteft from my own knowledge, had Jus mind feafoned with pious reverence, and fincerely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind seasoned with pious reverence, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...sentence upon the noble authour and his editor. 'Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward1: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death' !' Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind seasoned with pious reverence, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...upon the noble aiithour and his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death !" Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge, had his mind seasoned with pious reverence, and... | |
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...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 Scotchman to draw the trigger ' after his death.' These expressions, which... | |
 | 1860 - 636 pages
...Bolingbroke's literary bequest to Mallett : — ' Sir, he was a scoundrel • and a coward — a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss • against 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...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) - 1835 - 606 pages
...Egremont Papers, perhaps, if carefully txiimineil for this objtct, might throw some light on the affair. left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death.' It would be a strong corroboration of the justice of Johnson's estimate of Bolingbroke's character,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...sentence upon the author and his editor : " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death." (Boswell's ' Life of Johnson') 1 tation from the public, who justly appear to have paid them very little... | |
 | 1817 - 650 pages
...sentence upon the noble author and his editor. Sir, be 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 death !" Boswcll's Life of Johnson,... | |
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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... 
