 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.  The life of Samuel Johnson - الصفحة 376بواسطة James Boswell - 1817عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | David Hume - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...396, n. 3. To Macpherson, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...my 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...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,2 are not... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...be called forcible speech : — " 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 still.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...myself, the law shall do for me. I will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat, from any fear of the menaces of a Ruffian. " What would you have me...still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here dare you refute. Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so... | |
 | 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...offered to myself 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." It was then that he purchased an oak cudgel far bigger than that which he got to thrash Foote, on hearing... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...forgery. Receiving a 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... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...The Doctor answered by 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...catalogue. In the copy of 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.... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...do 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...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... | |
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