 | John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...needy conveyance of your purse. You first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and, if I sheath it until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal...attack — but I am writing to the descendant of a merryandrew, and prostitute the term of manhood by applying it to Mr. Foote. Clothed in my innocence... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 646 pages
...sword, and if I sheath it, till I make " you crouch like the subservient vassal you are, " then there is not spirit in an injured woman, nor " meanness in a slanderous buffoon" — she then abuses Foote's family ; talks of being clothed in her innocence, &c. — and concludes... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 488 pages
...convenience of your purse. You first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and, if I sheath it until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal, as you are, then is there no spirit in an injured woman, nor meanness in a slanderous buffoon. " To a man, my sex alone would... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 516 pages
...received your ill-judged letter. As there is little consideration required, I shall sacrifice a moment to answer it. " A Member of your Privy Council can...crouch like the subservient vassal as you are, then there is no spirit in an injured woman, nor meanness in a slanderous buffoon. " To a man, my sex alone... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 528 pages
...abhorred you for your slander, I now despise you for your concessions ; it is a proof of the illiberally of your satire, when you can publish or suppress it...crouch like the subservient vassal as you are, then there is no spirit in an injured woman, nor meanness in a slanderous buffoon. " To a man, my sex alone... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 pages
...sword, and if I sheath it till I make you crouch like the subservient vassal you are, then there is not spirit in an injured woman nor meanness in a slanderous buffoon." She then runs off into abuse of Foote's family — it was the way of the time if you hated a man to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...own dignity to enter into a compromise with an extortionate assassin of private reputation. I sheath it until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal...a slanderous Buffoon. To a man my sex alone would havescreened me from attack — but I am writing to the descendant of a Merry- Andrew, and prostitute... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 pages
...needy convenience of your purse. You first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and if I sheath it until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal...from attack ; but I am writing to the descendant of a merryandrew, and prostitute the term of manhood, by applying it to Mr. Foote. " Clothed in my innocence... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 434 pages
...hope to be of a lady's cahinet. I sheath it until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal as yon are, then is there not spirit in an injured woman,...To a man my sex alone would have screened me from attack—but I am writing to the descendant of a Merry- Andrew, and prostitute the name of manhood... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 408 pages
...and, if I sheath it, until I make you crouch like the subservient vassal as you are, then is there no spirit in an injured woman, nor meanness in a slanderous...from attack ; but I am writing to the descendant of a merry-andrew, and prostitute the name of manhood by applying it to Mr. Foote. "Clothed in my innocence... | |
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To a man, my sex alone would have screened me from attack ; but I am writing to the descendant of a merry-andrew, and prostitute the term of manhood by applying it to Mr. Foote. " Clothed in my innocence as in a coat of mail, I am... 
