 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...  Notes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems - Page 47by Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 246 pages
...him, or for any other reason. What he said to James Macpherson may be regarded as his rule of life, " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." It has been said that Boswell always reported faithfully the Doctor's onslaughts even when they were... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - Authors, English 18th century Biography - 1920 - 248 pages
...him, or for any other reason. What he said to James Macpherson may be regarded as his rule of life, " I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian." It has been said that Boswell always reported faithfully the Doctor's onslaughts even when they were... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...authenticated by a note in his own hand-writing, "This, I think, is a true copy" "Ms. JAMES MACPHERSON, "I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any...have me retract? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which I here... | |
 | Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 pages
...that he sometimes wrote as he spoke — crisply, clearly, and scathingly: MR JAMES MACPHERSON, I have received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence...what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian. His Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1774), a travel book, shows the faculty of narrative,... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - Authors - 1923 - 170 pages
...have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture, I think it an imposture still. Your rage I defy. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruff — А Г01СЕ (MACPHERSON'S). [Outside.] No man shall call me cheat and go unpunished. Dr. JOHNSON.... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 618 pages
...himself a biographer of repute. There will be found the letter to Macpherson (qv) of Ossian fame (' I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian '), the letter to Mrs. Thrale on her marriage, the ' patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel '... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1928 - 564 pages
...hope you will be like him too a hundred years hence. I am, &c. SAM. JOHNSON. 30 MR. JAMES MACPHERSON: I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence...have me retract? I thought your book an imposture, I think it aii imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public, which 5 I here... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pages
...letter demanding a retractation. Johnson laid in a cudgel and replied : " Mr. James MacPherson, I have received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence...have me retract ? I thought your book an imposture ; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the public which I here... | |
 | American literature - 1895 - 908 pages
...of the letters had a peculiar interest. I pointed out these two, and showed him in each case in what 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.... | |
 | 1897 - 928 pages
...Here is the letter as dictated to Boswell and printed in the "Life:" — Mr. James Macpherson, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence...have me retract? I thought your book an imposture; I think it an imposture still. For this opinion I have given my reasons to the publick, which I here... | |
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