 | English literature - 1793 - 702 pages
...book was really written by the perfon whofe name it bore, me faid with great indignation, that (he would have him racked, to produce his author. I replied, " Nay, Madam, he is a doctor, never rack his perfon, rack his Ityle ; let him have pen, ink, and paper, anj help of books, and be enjoined to continue... | |
 | History - 1793 - 532 pages
...book was really written by the perfon whofe name it bore, (he (aid with great indignation, that me would have him racked, to produce his author. I replied, " Nay, " Madam, he is a doftor, never " rack his perfon, rack his ftyle; " let him have pen, ink, and paper, «' and help of... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1792 - 618 pages
...book was really written by the perlón whofe name it bore, ihe faid with great indignation,, that ihe would have him racked, to produce his author. I replied, " Nay, Madam, he is a Doftor, never rack his perlón, rack his Oyle ; let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of books,... | |
 | History - 1793 - 542 pages
...book was really written by the perfon whofe name it bore, me faid with great indignation, that ihe would have him racked, to produce his author. I replied, " Nay, Madam, he is a donor, never ' rack his perfon, rack his ftyle; ' let him have pen, ink, and paper, 1 and help of books,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...difficult to please oa this head. Appendix " writing whose name was to it, but that it had v^.^/ " some more mischievous author, and said, with. " great..." but rack his style : Let him have pen. ink, and <c paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to " continue the story where it breaketh off, and I "... | |
 | Louis Simond - Great Britain - 1815 - 376 pages
...time, when the Queen could not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, and said, with...style; let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help 01 books, and be enjoined to continue the story where it foreaketh off, and I will undertake, by collating... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 688 pages
...persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, she said, with great indignation, that she would have him racked to produce his author.' Thus, continues Hume, " had it not been for Bacon's humanity, or rather his wit, this author, a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 568 pages
...time, when the queen would not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author; and said with...person, but rack his style ; let him have pen, ink, 4 . " and paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to " continue the story where it breaketh off,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 888 pages
..."when she could not be persuaded that a book was really written by the person whose name k bore, she said with great indignation, that she would have him racked, to produce his author. 1 replied, " May, Madam, he is a doctor, never rack his person, rack his style; let him have •pen,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 490 pages
...when the queen would not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it hod some more mischievous author ; and said with great...is a " doctor, never rack his person, but rack his stile; " let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of " books, and be enjoined to continue the story... | |
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And another time, when the queen would not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author; and said with great indignation, That she would have him racked to produce his author... 
