 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1892 - 492 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.' 374. To JAMES BOSWELL. [London], January 21, 1775. Published in the Life, ii. 292. 375. To JAMES BOSWELL.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...furious and threatening letter from the author of " Ossian," Johnson replied : " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." In anticipation of personal violence, he provided himself with a heavy stick, of which, had occasion... | |
 | Great Britain - 1894 - 832 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." It was then that he purchased an oak cudgel far bigger than that which he got to thrash Foote, on hearing... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...what I think a cheat, from any fear of 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 refute. Your rage I defy.... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Autographs - 1896 - 270 pages
...the letter dictated by Johnson to Boswell from memory this sentence runs, " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." I wish the fortunate owner of the original would publish a facsimile, or at all events an exact copy.... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 524 pages
...purchasing a stout oak cudgel, and issuing an ultimatum in which he said, " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." Though Macpherson sulked in his tent and made no detailed reply to his critics and accusers, one of... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Authors, English - 1898 - 300 pages
...my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall not 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.... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1897 - 496 pages
...detectmg what I think a cheat, from any fear of 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 refute. Your rage I defy.... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - 1898 - 7 pages
...stout cudgel he wrote his famous reply, in which occurs the splendid phrase, " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian." And on another occasion the doctor had exclaimed of the Ossianic " translations," " Sir, a man might... | |
 | Joseph Texte - Civilization, Modern - 1899 - 444 pages
...to the edition of 1773. 2 Note to Caihloda. 3 8th December 1761. letter ... I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian." l Macpherson, however, but yesterday a schoolmaster and salaried tutor, could already count as his... | |
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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. 
