 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...to personal character than to literary power. It explains itself : " My Lord, " I have lately been informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two...is 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. HT LOBD : I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...phrase is all at once ? How is sun parsed ? 10. " To the Might 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...dignified expression of wounded pride and surly independence, is inimitable : — 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...is, perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EA.RL OF CHESTERFIELD. 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, Is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...25. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February 7, 1756. " M v LORD, — I have been lately informed, bv 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 638 pages
...therefore given in full : — "TO ТHE RIGHT НON. ТНE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " February 7, 1775. "Мv LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, iu which my 'Dictionary' is recommended to the public, were writ-ten by your lordship. To be so distinguished... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...vestiges are regarded with pious affection. — (SYDNEY SMITH.) DR. JOHNSON TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the " World," that two papers,8 in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...is, perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 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, is an honor, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...of what the world hits so eagerly desired to see. 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 so distinguished, is an honour, 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... 
