 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Počet stránok 522
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profanenes?, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet as oar best dispositions are imperfect, lie left standing in... | |
 | 1841 - Počet stránok 602
...on the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. ' If,' said he, ' Mr Collier be my ' enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend, as 1 have given ' him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my ' repentance.' It would... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - Počet stránok 760
...expressions of mine which can be truly argued or accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality — and I RETRACT THEM. If he be my enemy, let him triumph :...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further remembered,... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 740
...expressions of mine which can be truly argued or accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality — and I RETRACT THEM. If he be my enemy, let him triumph :...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." p. 74. It must be further remembered,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Počet stránok 438
...the whole, he frankly acknowledged that he had been justly reproved. " If," said he, " Mr. Collier be my enemy, let him triumph. If he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance." It would have been wise in Congreve to follow his master's example. He was precisely in that situation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - Počet stránok 718
...thoughts or expressions of mine that can be truly accused of obscenity, immorality, or profaneness, heir party, and was supported by the liberality of those lie be my friend, he will be glad of my repentance." Yet, as our best dispositions are imperfect, he... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1845 - Počet stránok 472
...justly ; and, I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly accused of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - Počet stránok 726
...havepleadedgutlty to all thought« and expressions of mine, which can be truly ¡irgued of obscenity, profánenos?, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he I be my friend, as I have given him no personal oceo» ! mon to be otherwise, he will be glad of my... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - Počet stránok 426
...him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad ot my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have BO often drawn it for a good one. Yet It were not difficult to... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1848 - Počet stránok 630
...justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract...repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one." His next publication was a translation... | |
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I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy,... 
