 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 σελίδες
...Mallett roused the indignation of Johnson, who uttered upon the occasion the far-famed invective :—" Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel,...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... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 σελίδες
...gifted Lord Bolingbroke, the idol of Dean Swift, Pope, and many more:—" Sir," he said, " Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 704 σελίδες
...publication of his infidel and pseudophilosophical sentiments, that he broke out in 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,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 596 σελίδες
...in allusion to this edition of his Lordship's works that Dr. Johnson said, " Sir, he (Bolingbroke) was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 σελίδες
...to be published immediately after hii death. This gave rise to Johnson's remark, that " Bolingbroke was a 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 himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 σελίδες
...to be published immediately after his death. This gave rise to Johnson's remark, that " Bolingbroke was a 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 himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 σελίδες
...their character and tendency, he remarked, with characteristic force and aptness of comparison — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward — a scoundrel...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 σελίδες
...their character and tendeney, he remarked, with characteristic force and aptness of comparison — "Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward — a scoundrel for charging a hlunderhuss agaiust religion and morality ; and a coward, hecause he had not resolution to fire it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 σελίδες
...upon the noble author and his editor : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for4 charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality...beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death ! " — B. my hand and seal the twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand... | |
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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... 
