 What would you have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable,...  Englische Studien - Page 601897Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,2 are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals...shall prove. You may print this if you will. " SAM. JOHNSON." Mr. Macpherson little knew the character of Dr. Johnson, if he supposed that he could be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 pages
...to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,2 .are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals...shall prove. You may print this if you will. " SAM. JOHNSON." Mr. Macpherson little knew the character of Dr. Johnson, if he supposed that he could be... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 pages
...imposture ; I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, * are not BO formidable : and what I hear of your morals inclines...you shall prove. You may print this if you will." Dr. Johnson carried a big oaken cudgel with him, when he travelled in Scotland. Hume, on the other... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your...what you shall prove. You may print this if you will. "Зли. JOHNSON." Mr. Macpherson little knew the character of' Dr. Johnson, if he supposed that he... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 pages
...to repel, and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat, from any fear of the menaces...shall prove. You may print this if you will. "SAM. JOHNSON.2 " 20th January, 1775." k 1 The gentleman who carried it, William Duncan, as-; serted the... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 270 pages
...despise you, I reverence truth, and if you can prove the genuineness of the work I will confess it. Your rage I defy, your abilities since your Homer are not so formidable and what I have heard of your morals disposes me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but what you can prove.... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1898 - 300 pages
...an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your...shall prove. You may print this if you will. SAM. JOHNSON. To SAMUEL RICHARDSON. March 9, 1750-1. DEAR SIR, THOUGH Clarissa wants no help from external... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 374 pages
...IIL— 15 would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer,*...formidable : and what I hear of your morals inclines uie to pay regard — not to what you shall say, but to what you shall prove. You may print this if... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...despise you, I reverence truth, and if you can prove the genuineness of the work I will confess it. Your rage I defy, your abilities since your Homer are not so formidable, and what I have heard of your morals disposes me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but what you can prove.... | |
 | Charles Deane Punchard - 1899 - 180 pages
...have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities are not so formidable ; and what I hear of your morals...shall prove. You may print this if you will. SAM. JOHNSON.'" Boswell adds that Mr. Macpherson little knew the character of Dr. Johnson if he supposed... | |
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