 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer. Lord Chesterfield, 28 November 1754, letter to The World 8:22 I regret to see that vile and barbarous... | |
 | 1741 - 698 pages
...will not only obey him, like an old Raman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible...longer. More than this he cannot well require ; for I prefume that obedience can never be expected when there is neither terror to enforce, nor intereft... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pages
...not only obey hirti like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my Pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair, but no longer. Morfe than this he cannot well require ; for, I presume, that obedience can never be expected, when... | |
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... declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay, more ; I will not only obey him like an old Roman, as... 
