 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1811 - 494 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, without incurring the imputation of vanity or...numerous shafts of envy, rancour, and revenge, that hare lately, both in private and in public, been levelled at his reputation. I THE ADVENTURES •.I.... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make without incurring the imputation of vanity or...for humour greatly to outrun his sense of decency and propriety ; and, in this respect, notwithstanding what he himself says in the passage just quoted,... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make without incurring the imputation of vanity or...lately, both in public and private, been levelled at his reputation.1** In reference to this palinode, we may barely observe, that the passages retrenched in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, without incurring the imputation of vanity or...for humour greatly to outrun his sense of decency and propriety; and, in this respect, notwithstanding what he himself says in the passage just quoted,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, •without incurring the imputation of vanity...retrenched in the second edition are, generally speaking, details of frolics in which the author had permitted his turn for humour greatly to outrun his sense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, without incurring the imputation of vanity or...retrenched in the second edition are, generally speaking, details of frolics in which the author had permitted his turn for humour greatly to outrun his sense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, •without incurring the imputation of vanity...retrenched in the second edition are, generally speaking, details of frolics in which the author had permitted his turn for humour greatly to outrun his sense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...vanity or^presumption, considering the numerous shafts of envy, rancour, and revenge, that have |ately, both in public and private, been levelled at his reputation." In reference to this palinode, we rnoy barely observe, that the passages retrenched in the second edition arc, generally speaking, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...permitted to make, without incurring the imputation of vanity or presumption, considering the nuTnrrous shafts of envy, rancour, and revenge, that have lately,...retrenched in the second edition are, generally speaking, details of frolics in which the author had permitted his turn for humour greatly to outrun his sense... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration IIP may be permitted to make, without incurring the Imudtatlon of vanity or presumption, considering the numerous...envy, rancour, and revenge, that have lately, both in private and in public, been levelled at his reputation. Note. The two Letteri relating to th« Memoir... | |
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Howsoever he may have erred in point of judgment or discretion, he defies the whole world to prove that he was ever guilty of one act of malice, ingratitude, or dishonour. This declaration he may be permitted to make, without incurring the imputation... 
