 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...it. 't You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegado, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the...the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out." ' He thus defines Excise " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...characters. " You know, Sir, Lord GOWER forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegade, after telling that it meant one who deserts to the...added, sometimes •we say a GOWER. Thus it went to press: but the printer* had more wit than 1, and struck it out." The same spirit of discontent with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 410 pages
...characters. " You know, Sir, Lord GOWER forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegado, after telling that it meant one who deserts to the...I added, sometimes we say a GOWER. Thus it went to press : but the printer* had more wit than I, and struck it out." The same spirit of discontent with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...it. " You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the world Renegado, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the...printer had more wit than I, and struck it out." Let il however, be remembered, that this indulgence does not display itself only in sarcasm towards others,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...it. ' You know, sir, lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Itenegado, after telling that it meant " one who deserts to the...the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.' " On another occasion, this gentleman observes, " The London Chronicle, which was the only newspaper... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...it. " You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the world Renegado, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the...enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes we say a GOWER. Thns it went to the press : but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out." Let it however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...it. " You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegado, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter,' I added, Sometimes vce say a GOWER. Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out."... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...it. ' You know, sir, lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Hcnegado, after telling that it meant " one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter," I added, "Sometimes ice say a Gower." Thus it went to the press ; but the printer had more wit than I, and struck it out.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...it. " You know, Sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word Renegaao, after telling that it meant ' one who deserts to the enemy, a revblter,' I added, Sometimes we say o. GOWER. Thus it went to the press : but the printer had more... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...meant one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter, I added, sometimes we say a Gower. Thus it went to press but the printer * had more wit than I, and struck it out." The same spirit of discontent with public men and measures induced him, in No. 1 1 , to describe the... | |
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Ashbourne in 1777, he mentioned a still stronger instance of the predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work than any now to be found in it. "You know, sir, Lord Gower forsook the old Jacobite interest. When I came to the word... 
