 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 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...audacity is the last refuge of guilt. It would be easy to show it if he had it ; but whence could it be had ? It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 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...audacity is the last refuge of guilt. It would be easy to show it if he had it; but whence could it be had ? It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 pages
...Ossian] 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 avenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence is a degree of insolence with which the world is... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 352 pages
...than 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...audacity is the last refuge of guilt. It would be easy to show it if he had it, but whence could it be had 1 It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 356 pages
...than 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...audacity is the last refuge of guilt. It would be easy to show it if lie had it, but whence could it be had 1 It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1880 - 768 pages
...that which we have seen. The editor or author never could show the originals, nor can they be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by...insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stuhborn .audacity is the last refuge of guilt. It would be easy to show them if he had them. But whence... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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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 show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other ; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with... 
