 | Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. Dr. Johnson to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chciterfield. February, 1755. Mr LORD, I HAVE been lately informed by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished ia an honour which, being very little... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. Mr LORD : I have been lately informed by the proprictor of /he World, that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended...an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...dated in the month of February, 1755. " To the Right Hon. the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. "•My LORD, "•1 have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1755. ntler mood inspires ; for now the leaf Incessant rustles public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1?S5. . recosimended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. Letter to Lard Chesterfield. February 7, 1755. My Lord— I have been lately informed by the proprietor...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...what the world has so eagerly desired to see. "TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. "7th February- 1TSS. " MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World,' thai two 1 [It does not appear that there was anv thine like " device" or " artifice." — KD.] * Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...already;" or words to that purpose. — JioswELL. EH 25. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " February 7. 1755. " MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...what the world has so eagerly desired to see. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 11 February 7. 1755. " Mr prejudic public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...phrase is all at once ? How is sun parsed ? 11. "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield. " MY LORD, " I have been lately informed by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little... | |
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World, that two 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 accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what... 
