 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. '; My LORD, " I have been lately informed, by the proprietors 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... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...LETTER II. DR. JOHNSON TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE TUP. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORI), ' February, 1753. 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 honour which, being very little... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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,...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 - 1816 - 154 pages
...stands upon record in the annals of literary history. ' I HAVE been lately informed by the proprietors of the " World," that two papers in which my Dictionary...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 - 1816 - 506 pages
...Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, " I have been lately informed, by the pro" prietors of the World, that two papers, " in which my Dictionary...recommended " to the publick, were written by your Lord" ship. To be so distinguished is an honour " which, being very little accustomed to " favours... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...proprietor of the ' \Vorld,' 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 the favours of the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...see. " To THE RIGHT HONOURAHI.E THE Елит. OF CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, February 7, 1755. " I HATE been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World,...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be su distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...desired to see. " To THE RHJHT HONOURABLE THE EAKL OF CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, February 7, 1755. " 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 honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, '.' I have been lately informed, by the proprietors 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...desired to see. " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " MY LOUD, February 7, 1755. " I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor of...Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written 1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have had a remarkable delicacy with . respect to the circulation of this... | |
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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... 
