 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...following words, — " As to his character, of them who know him, they will not scruple to say, he is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The resentment which this intemperate paragraph kindled in the breast of his prosecutor, instead of... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...author of the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The Admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admirad without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The Admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...strictures in the Critical Review, which, in order to screen the Erinter of it, he generously avowed imself to have written, once more exposed him to a legal...without resolution, and a man without veracity." It can scarcely be wondered, if, after such provocation, the party injured was not deterred by menaces, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...author of the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the Review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...Smollett said of the admiral, ' As to his character, those who know him will not scruple to say, he is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity.' In consequence of this open attack on his character, Admiral Knowles immediately commenced legal measures... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...author of the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the Review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...author of the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The admiral commenced u prosecution against the printer of the Review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...author of the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. " He is an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge,...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the Review, declaring at the same time that... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 554 pages
...the article, used the following intemperate expressions concerning Admiral Knowles. "He is an admirsl without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an...officer without resolution, and a man without veracity." The admiral commenced a prosecution against the printer of the review, declaring at the same time thathe... | |
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an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a man without veracity! 
