 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 pages
...an imposture. He adds, " The editor, or author, never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt." This reasoning carries with it great weight. It roused the resentment of Mr. Macpherson. He sent a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...an imposture. He adds, " The editor, or author, never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt." This reasoning carries with it great weight. It roused the resentment of Mr. Macpherson. He sent a... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 492 pages
...news-papers: "Dr. Johnson having asserted in his late publication, that the translator of Ossian's poems never could shew the original, nor can it be shewn by any other ; I hereby declare that the originals of Fingal and other poems of Ossian, lay in my shop for many... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 512 pages
...that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.' See ante, ii. 126. * Taxation no Tyranny. See post, under March 21, 1775. 3 See ante, p. 265. 4 In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...gentleman was an attorney. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 126. Audacity Audacity the last Refuge of Guilt : To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. Works, U. 115. Authority : IT must always be the condition of a great part of mankind to reject and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 360 pages
...gentleman was an attorney. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 126. Audacity the last Refuge of Guilt : To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence...acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of Works, ix. n5. IT must always be the condition of a great part of mankind to reject and embrace tenets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...Audacity Audacity the last Refuge of Guilt : To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence 1 is a degree of insolence with which the world is not...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. Works, ix. n5. Authority : IT must always be the condition of a great part of mankind to reject and... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...that which we have seen. The editor, or author, could never show the original; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt." Goldsmith said of Johnson, with great truth, that although he had a roughness in his manner, no man... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 512 pages
...these, and such like reasons, Johnson calls the whole an imposture. He adds, ' The editor, or author, never could shew the original, nor can it be shewn...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt *.' This reasoning carries with it great weight. It roused the resentment of Mr. Macpherson. He sent... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...these. and such like reasons, Johnson calls the whole an imposture. He adds, ' The editor, or author, never could shew the original, nor can it be shewn...and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt 2.' This reasoning carries with it great weight. It roused the resentment of Mr. Macpherson. He sent... | |
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I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could shew the original; nor can it be shewn by any other; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with... 
