...just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence5 upon the noble a uthour6 arid his editor. " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward: a scoundrel...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman7 to draw the trigger after his death ! " Garrick, who I can attest...

...characteristic, though not a courteously-worded sentence, on the noble author, and his editor : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward : A scoundrel, for charging a blunderderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not the resolution to fire...

...forgotten. We give Dr. Johnson's remark on Bolingbroke, as preserved by Boswell : — '• Sir, ho was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging...had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left a half-crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death." — (Jloswell's Life of...

...just indignation, and pronounced this memorable sentence upon the noble author and his editor: — " Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel...religion and morality; a coward, because — *-*he had no resolution to fire it off himself, but left %•• fe 7 ' half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman,...

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...the name of ' Philosophy/ published by David Mallet, 1751. This u Johnson's playful entire : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel For charging a blunderbuss againit religion and morality ; a coward because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but...

...the name of ' Philosophy,' published by David Mallet, 1751. This is Johnson's playful satire : — " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel...morality ; a coward because he had not resolution to lire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman (Mallet) to I!MW the trigger after...

...Mallett roused the indignation of Johnson, who uttered upon the occasion the far-famed invective :—" Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel,...religion and morality; a coward, because he had not the resolution to fire it off himself, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger...

...gifted Lord Bolingbroke, the idol of Dean Swift, Pope, and many more:—" Sir," he said, " Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel, for charging a blunderbuss against religion and • In his Life of Milton. morality: a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself,...

...publication of his infidel and pseudophilosophical sentiments, that he broke out in the following words ; " Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward ; a scoundrel for charging a blunderbus against religion and morality ; a coward because he had not resolution to fire it off himself,...