 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 605 pages
...what I cannot do for « myfelf, the law fhall do for me ; for I will not be ' hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by « the menaces of a ruffian....What would you have * me retract ? I thought your work an impofition ; * I think io ftill ; and, for my opinion, I have given ' reafons which I here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1787
...what I cannot do for * myfelf, the law fhall do for me ; for I will not be ' hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by * the menaces of a ruffian....What would you have * me retract ? I thought your work an impofition ; * I think fo ftill ; and, for my opinion, I have given ' reafons which I here... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 605 pages
...what I cannot do for ' myfelf, the law fhall do for me ; for I will not be c hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by * the menaces of a ruffian....What would you have ' me retract ? I thought your work an impofkion ; ''* I' »T ' I think fo ftill ; and, for my opinion, I have given * reafons which... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 605 pages
...what I cannot do for f myfelf, the law fhall do for me ; for I will not be f hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by * the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have ' me retradt ? I thought your work an impofition ; ' I think fo ftill ; and, for my opinion, I have given... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...what I cannot do for € myfelf, the law fhall do for me j for I will not be ' hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by * the menaces of a ruffian. What would you have r me retract ? I thought your work an impofition j ' I think fo ftill ; and, for my opinion, I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
...fhall do my beft to repel ; and what I cannot do for myfelf, the law fhall do for me. I hope I fhall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat,...would you have me retract ? I thought your book an impofture; I think it an impofture ftill. For this opinion I have given my reafons to the publick,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
...fhall do my bef t to repel; and what I cannot do for myfelf, the law fhall do for me. I hope I fhall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. <t What would you have me retract ? I thought your book an impofture ; I think it an impofture Mill.... | |
 | Samuel Whyte - 1800 - 296 pages
...fhall do my beft to repel, and what I cannot do for myTelf the law fhall do for me. I hope I fhall never be deterred from detecting 'what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." — The plea of refufmg a chair, we apprehend, would have appeared but a lame excufe, before a jury,... | |
 | Samuel Whyte, James Boswell, Edward Athenry Whyte - 1801 - 285 pages
...fhall do my heft to repel, and what I cannot do for myfelf the law fhall do for me. I hope I fhall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian."—The plea of refufing a chair, we apprehend, would have appeared but a lame excufe, before... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1801
...and what I cannot do for myfclf, the law /hall da for me ; for I will not be hindered from expofing what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian. What Ï Would you have me retraél ? I thought your work an impofition : I think fo ftill ; and, for my... | |
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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... 
