 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 512 pages
...from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. ' ' 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 publick, which I here dare you to refute. Your rage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophers - 1888 - 486 pages
...who had threatened him in ' a foolish and impudent letter,' he wrote : — ' I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian.' Ib. ii. 298. Blair foolishly flattered himself at one time that he had convinced Johnson. He wrote... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. 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... | |
 | Harry Butler SIMPSON - 1888 - 222 pages
...from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...best to repel ; 2 and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I never shall be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. " What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still.... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1904 - 376 pages
...: — " Mr. James Macphersou, I received your foolish and impudent letter. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What III.— 15 would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me . I hope I shall never be HF eqi+ G ) t &; x v l¼EZ= MY3J K - 9 G bY @ F h O ʩ+ ** What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still.... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1891 - 304 pages
...my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I never shall be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian." Now, this was written down by Boswell at Johnson's dictation ; Johnson, however, may not have recalled... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 338 pages
...my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I never shall be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruflBan." Now, this was written down by Boswell at Johnson's dictation ; Johnson, however, may not... | |
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I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. 
