MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, — 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,... The British Poets - Page 1681866Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...phrase of stern defiance. ' 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...personal violence ; but his letter has not been preserved. Johnson returned the following answer : " Mr JAMES MACPHERSON. " I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel, and what I cannot do myself the law shall do for me. I hope... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...the British Museum. " 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.... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...presence, and authenticated by a note in his own hand writing, " This, I think, is a true copy" l " MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, " 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.... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...MR.JAMES MACPHERSON, " 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.... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...ignorance of the character and temper of his opponent, who replied to him in the subsequent terms. " MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, " 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.... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...ignorance of the character and temper of his opponent, who replied to him in the subsequent terms. " MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, « I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence ofl'cred me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me.... | |
| Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...of stern defiance. " 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 menace of a ruffian. "... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...phrase of stern defiance. ' 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 1 shall never be detered from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian! What... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...contemptuous reply : . " 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. "... | |
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