 | 1791 - 800 pages
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 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...It was as follows ; < To the Right Hon. the Earl of Chefterfield. « My Lord, Feb. 7, 1755. / • I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of «...is recommended to the public, were written by your « lordfhip. To be fo diftinguifhed is an honour, « which, being very little accuftomed to favours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 18?? - 220 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...pages under 'To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. ,, . 'February 7, 1755. ' MY LORD, ' I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Chesterfield. 303 'To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. ' February 7, 1755. ' MY LORD, ' I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...that purpose. (C TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OP CHESTERFIELD. ." MY LORD, February 7, 1755. f I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...written by your " Lordftiip. To be fo diftinguifhed is an " honour which, being very little accuf** tomed to favours from the great, 1 know " not well how to...receive, or in what terms " to acknowledge. " When upon fome flight encouragement, " I firft vifited your Lordfhip, I was over" powered, like the reft of mankind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...written by your " Lordlhip. To be fo diftinguifhed is an " honour wWch, being very little accuf" tomed to favours from ^the great, 1 know '' not well how...receive, or in what terms " to acknowledge. "/When upon fome flight encouragement, " I firft vifited your Lordfhip, I was over*' powered, like the reft of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Johnson's Dictionary. 1.1 \ To the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield. " MY LORD, February, 1755. " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the ptiblic, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which being very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...noblest lesson to both patrons and authors that stands upon record in the annals of literary history. ' I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be distinguished is an honour, which being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not... | |
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I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours... 
