 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 354 páginas
...possession, not of Boswell's copy, but of the original letter itself. " MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent note. Whatever...variations : the date is January 20, 1775. But how is the different shape of the same story in the printed version and in the notes to be accounted for?... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 416 páginas
...offered me, I r -- will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for myself, the law will do for me. J will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat...variations : the date is January 20, 1775. But how is the different shape of the same story in the printed version and in the notes to be accounted for?... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 páginas
...offered me, I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for 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.' . ' In the Gent. Mag. for 1773, p. 192, is announced: ' The Iliad of Homer. Translated by James Macpherson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 páginas
...possession, not of Boswell's copy, but of the original letter itselt. "MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent note. Whatever...variations : the date is January 20, 1775. But how is the different shape of the same story in the printed version and in these notes to be accounted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 496 páginas
...offered me, I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for 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.' In the Life it stands thus :— ' MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, ' I received your foolish and impudent letter.... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 páginas
...offered me, I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for 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 retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still.... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1896 - 266 páginas
...sums were paid. In 1875, for the famous letter in which the dauntless old man wrote to Macpherson, " I will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat from any fear of the menaces of a Ruffian," 1 no less than fifty pounds was given, and well given, too. For a fiddle three or four times as much... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 páginas
...is offered me I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for myself the law will do for me. I will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat from any fear of the menaces of a Ruffian. You want me to retract. What shall I retract? I thought your book an imposture from the beginning,... | |
 | 1897 - 496 páginas
...to repel, and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I will not desist from 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...possession, not of Boswell's copy, but of the original letter itselt. " MR. JAMES MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent note. Whatever...variations : the date is January 20, 1775. But how is the different shape of the same story in the printed version and in these notes to be accounted... | |
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I received your foolish and impudent note. Whatever insult is offered me I will do my best to repel, and what I cannot do for myself the law will do for me. I will not desist from detecting what I think a cheat from any fear of the menaces of a Ruffian. 
