That the complaint of the aforesaid libels and advertisements was forged and untrue; that all mouths had been silent, except in Mr Pope's praise; and nothing against him published, but by Mr Theobald.
Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the Newspapers, like the former Volume, under the same title, by Smedley.
Numberless libels were written against him in England as a Jacobite; he was insulted in the street, and at night he was forced to be attended by his servants armed.
Should stupid libels grieve your mind, You soon a remedy may find; Lie down obscure like other folks Below the lash of snarlers' jokes.
In the early days of her married life outrageous libels had been freely circulated, both against her and against the King.
The press teemed with libels of the most atrocious character.
Guerchy, that he refused to deliver his letters of recall, set his court at defiance, and published a volume of libels on M.
This, of course, could not be done: but he was proceeded against by criminal information, and finally convicted of the libels against M.
His anger was particularly directed against a Baroness de Reith and a Baroness d'Ettengein, who had loudly vituperated him, and distributed numerous libels on the left bank of the Rhine.
It is melancholy to reflect that this nervous susceptibility to the libels of the English papers contributed certainly as much as, and perhaps more than, the consideration of great political interests to the renewal of hostilities.
He advised him to treat the libels with profound contempt, and do as he and others did, who attached not the slightest importance to them.
Sir Walter appears to have collected his information for the Life of Napoleon only from those libels and vulgar stories which gratified the calumnious spirit and national hatred.
The English Ministry now spared no endeavours to influence public opinion by the circulation of libelsagainst Bonaparte.
This distinction, however, was far from securing for him the tranquillity which he had hoped from it, and worse libels tormented him than before.
On some occasion when Voltaire was harassed by a storm of libels, and happened to be on good terms with the police, a distributor of the libels was arrested.
The States of Holland have followed the spirit of his Majesty's letters, but our antagonists have rejected them and with seditious talk, sermons, and the spreading of infamous libels have brought matters to their present condition.
The factious libelsbecome daily more numerous and more impudent, and no man comes undamaged from the field.
These written slanders or libelswere viewed as incitements to disorder and private vengeance.
Before his last fatal expedition, among the many libels which abounded, I have discovered a manuscript satire, entitled "Rhodomontados.
No one can imagine the libels they have spread in the provinces about my poor son; they have also sent them to foreign countries.
That the ministers, or their partisans, have been employed for more than six months in publishing libels against me; atrocious falsehoods (such as the 4000l.
Libels were unnoticed, and the rioters were unpunished.
Johnson; while his administration was assailed with a host oflibels from Wilkes, Churchill, and other kindred firebrands.
But these were not made wholly with a view of shackling the mind, but to prevent those libels and lampoons which made the government ridiculous in the eyes of the people.
I need not say that, after this, prosecutions for seditious libels became less potent and frequent weapons in the hands of royal and ministerial persecutors, and reformers breathed freer.
Not only were they instruments of corruption, but ludicrous libels on the claim of the House of Commons to represent the people, and striking illustrations of extreme inequality in the distribution of political power.
Libels were secretly dispersed against Cecil and Raleigh and all his enemies: and his popularity, which was always great, seemed rather to be increased than diminished by his misfortunes.
In reading the libels which were published in the colony, and in England too, about this time, we should suppose that the man against whom they were aimed was some delinquent, notorious even in a penal settlement.
The "Sydney Gazette," which was under the immediate control of the governor, was allowed to publish from week to week the most scandalous libels upon his character.
There were, besides, many libels of the most personal kind poured forth against Dryden by the poets who supplied the usual demand of the hawkers.
For in some Popish libels I have read, The Wolf has been too busy in your bed.
They would have echoed the praises of the man whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspapers anonymous libels upon him.
Whether the “earthliness” of his libels and filthy polemics clung only to Luther’s feet, or whether it involved his character and whole work, Kawerau does not say.
Luther’s friend, Martin Bucer, strove to console himself in a peculiar fashion for the insults and libels which increased as Luther grew older.
The maliciouslibels of the European merchants were cleverly defeated by the crafty Portuguese.
Safe in England Madame de la Motte wrote her Memoirs, which are nothing but a mass of libels and a tissue of falsehood all directed against the Queen.
Of these we can know nothing; but I am convinced that no complaints or libels can be so strong as the facts stated by Mr. Macnaghten in this letter.
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