| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...fnccefs, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfed ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a considerable penfion... | |
| SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...ill fuccefs, he was employed to turn the pubUpk vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfed ; and he for his feafonable intervention had a confiderable penfion... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...fuccefs, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfecl ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a confiderable penfion... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fuccefs, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfed ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a confiderable penfion... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fuccefs, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfcd ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a confiderable penfion... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...fuccefs, he was employed to turn the publick vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was with great induftry circulated and difperfed ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a considerable penfion... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 586 pages
...fuccefs, he was employed " to turn the public vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of " accufation under the character of a Plain Man. The paper was " with great induilry circulated and difperfed ; and he for his " feafonable intervention had a confiderable penfion... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...circulated and difperfed ; and he, for his feafonable intervention, had a confiderable penfion beftowed upon him, which he retained to his death. '• • Towards the end of his life he went \yith Ks -wife to France ; but after a while, finding . ';-; his his health declining, he returned... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...last war, when the nation was exasperated by ill success, he was employed to turn the public vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accusation under...with great industry circulated and dispersed ; and ffe, for his seasonable intervention, had a considerable pension bestowed upon him, which he retained... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...last war, when the nation was exasperated by ill success, he was employed to turn the public vengeance upon Byng, and wrote a letter of accusation under...the end of his life he went with his wife to France ; ftut after a while, finding his health declining, he returned alone to England, and died in April... | |
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