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" I know too well what is due to my own dignity to enter into a compromise with an extortionable assassin of private reputation. If I before abhorred you for your slander, I now despise you for your concessions ; it is a proof of the illiberality of your... "
Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots ... - Page 116
by William Cook - 1806
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...received your ill-judged letter. As there is little consideration required, 1 shall sacriBce a moment to answer it. A member of your Privy Council can never...can publish or suppress it as best suits the needy conveyance of your purse. You. first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and, if I sheath...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...moment to answer it. A member of your Privy Council can never hope to be of a lady's cabinet. D3 • I know too well what is due to my own dignity, to...can publish or suppress it as best suits the needy conveyance of your purse. You first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and, if I sheath it...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3

John Walker - 1814 - 566 pages
...D 3 I know too well what is due to my own dignity, to enter into a compromise with an extortionuhle assassin of private reputation. If I before abhorred...can publish or suppress it as best suits the needy conveyance of your purse. You first had the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and, if I sheath it...
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Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to ..., Volume 5

John Genest - 1832 - 648 pages
...— I know too well what is due to my " own dignity to enter into a compromise with an " extortionate assassin of private reputation — if I " before abhorred..." you for your concessions— it is a proof of the illi" berality of your satire, when you can publish or " suppress it, as best suits the needy convenience...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 pages
...dignity to enter into a compromise with an extortionable assassin of private reputation. If I have abhorred you for your slander, I now despise you for...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...
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Anecdotes of the Aristocracy: And Episodes in Ancestral Story, Volume 2

Bernard Burke - 1849 - 528 pages
...cabinet. " I know too well what is due to my own dignity, to enter into a compromise with an extortionablc assassin of private reputation. If I before abhorred...despise you for your concessions ; it is a proof of the illiberally of your satire, when you can publish or suppress it as best suits the needy convenience...
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Historical and Biographical Essays: Biographical: Daniel De Foe. Sir Richard ...

John Forster - 1858 - 486 pages
...your ill-j udged letter. As there is ' little consideration required, I shall ' sacrifice a moment to answer it. " A member of your Privy Council ' can...cowardly ' baseness to draw the sword ; and 'if I sheath it until I make yon ' crouch like the subservient vassal ' as you are, then is there not spirit...
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Notes and Queries

1858 - 798 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...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 not spirit...
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Historical and Biographical Essays: Biographical: Daniel De Foe. Sir Richard ...

John Forster - 1858 - 488 pages
...know too well what is due to ' my own dignity to enter into a ' compromise with an extortioaable ' assassin of private reputation. If ' I before abhorred...best " suits the needy convenience of your "purse. Yon first had the cowardly ' ' baseness to draw the sword ; and "if I sheath it until I make you "crouch...
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Once a Week, Volume 12

Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 pages
..." I kuofr too well what is due to my own dignity to enter : into a compromise with an extortionate assassin of private reputation. If I before abhorred...suppress ; it as best suits the needy convenience of your I purse. You had first the cowardly baseness to draw the sword, and if I sheath it till I make you...
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