 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...upon the noble a uthour6 arid his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality;...it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman7 to draw the trigger after his death ! " Garrick, who I can attest from my own knowledge... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...Bolingbroke, as preserved by Boswell : — '• Sir, ho was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left a half-crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death." — (Jloswell's Life of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...upon the noble author 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 %•• fe 7 ' half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman,... | |
 | 1889 - 670 pages
...entire : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel For charging a blunderbuss againit religion and morality ; a coward because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but li- 1 1. balf-a -crown to a beggarly Scotchman (Mullet) to draw the trigger after his death." вер... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 pages
...Pope, and many more : " Sir," hs said, " Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death." Of a more obscure person,... | |
 | 1850 - 704 pages
...the following words ; " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbus against religion and morality ; a coward because he...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger after his death." Whitfield tells us that in... | |
 | 1889 - 562 pages
...1751. This is Johnson's playful satire : — " 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 lire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman (Mallet) to I!MW the trigger after... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...a coward : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and • In his Life of Milton. 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 death." Of a more obscure person,... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...upon the occasion the far-famed invective :—" 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 trigger... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...blunderbuss against religion and morality ; and a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger." Mr. Burke took this occasion to make his first appearance before the public. He wrote a pamphlet of... | |
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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... 
