I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be... The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - Page 96by National cyclopaedia - 1884Full view - About this book
| John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pages
...Expreffions of mine, which can be truly nrgtfd of Obfcenity, Profanenefs, or Immorality \ and retract them. If he be my Enemy, let him triumph * if he be my Friend, as 1 have given him noPerfonal Occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my Repentance. It becomes... | |
| John Dryden - 1760 - 526 pages
...expreflions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no peribnal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
| 1761 - 614 pages
...mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as 1 have given him no perlbnal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...mine, which can be truly arraigned of " obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality, and retract them. " If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, " as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, " he will be glad of my repentance. It... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retraft them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 pages
...enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occafion to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad caufe, when I have fo often drawn it for a good one. Yet it were not difficult... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 pages
...expreffions of mine, which can be truly argued of obfcenity, profanenefs, or immorality ; and retra£l them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no perfonal occaf:on to be otherwife, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...exprejpons of mine that can be truly accufed of obftenity, immorality , or profanenefs, and retract them. If' he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance. Yet, 'as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left Banding in the fame book a refleclion on Collier... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pages
...mine that can be truly accufed of ohfcenity, immorality, or frofanenefs, and retraSt them. If he he my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance. Yet, as our beft difpofitions are imperfect, he left in the fame book a- reflection 0n Collier of great... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...exprejjiom of mine that can be truly accufed of obfcenity, immorality , or profanenefs, and retraft them. If he be my enemy , let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he •will be glad of my repentance. Yet, as our beft difpofitions are imperfecl, he left ftanding in the fame book a reflection on Collier... | |
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