 | Samuel Johnson - 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 - 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 - 1897 - 512 pages
...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 by any other....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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...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 by any other....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... | |
 | 1897 - 496 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 I had it ; bnt whence could it be had ? It is too long to be remembered and the language... | |
 | John Semple Smart - 1905 - 256 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 ? It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 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 ? It is too long to be remembered, and the language... | |
 | Daisy Pearl Blum - 1916 - 322 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 refusing evidence is a degree of ins .lence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stuboorn audacity is the last refuge of... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...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....incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence trith which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt." These,... | |
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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... 
