 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,...  Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome - Page 597by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 923 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 540 pages
...mine which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend,...have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, lie will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to drat!v iny pen in the defence of a bad cause,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 538 pages
...mine which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | Biography - 1813 - 536 pages
...mine which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...expressions of mine, which may be argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...which can be truly arraigned of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be mine enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one."... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be mine enemy, let him triumph; if be be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion...be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in defence of a bad cause, when I have so oflen drawn it for a good one."... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend,...be otherwise, he will be glad of my 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... | |
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