 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mr LORD : 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...so eagerly desired to see-. LETTER 25. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February 7,1785. " MY LORD,—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 BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...heavier specimens of Johnson's style. 350 LETTER TO LOKD CHESTEBF1ELD. February 7th, 1755. MY LORD, 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 hononr which, being very little... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...We subjoin it, in preference to heavier specimens of Johnson's style. February 7th, 1753. MY LORD, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO TI1E RJ.OHT HONORABLE THE BAIL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mr LORD : 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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
..."Dictionary" is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished l is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well 2 how to receive, or 3 in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784. (Manual, p. 359.) 212. LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...ocrhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIOIIT HONORABLE THE EA IL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mi LORD : 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... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...XII.— OX THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DICTIONARY. Dr. Johnson to Lord ChaterfiM* February, 1755. Mr LOKD : I 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 honor which, being very little... | |
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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... 
