 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...wounded pride and surly independence, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1755. My Lord — nspires ; 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
...wounded pride and surly independence, the composition is inimitable : — February 7, 1?S5. My Lord — c ~ recosimended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...first ebullition of temper had subsided, felt that he had been unreasonably violent. — Er.] 112 113 papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your lordship. To be ao distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...that purpose. — JioswELL. EH 25. 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 BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...world has so eagerly desired to see. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. 11 February 7. 1755. " 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 honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, is inimitable : — February 7, 1755. MY LORD — 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 honour, which, being very little... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, is inimitable :— February 7, 1755. MY LORD—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 honour, which, being very little... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...more 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...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 accustomed... | |
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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... 
