 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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...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 upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...in the annals of literary history. " 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 distinguished is an honour, which being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, 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 iicknowledge. " Wfeen,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, 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... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...CHESTERFIELD. MY LORI), ' February, 1753. I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended...is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, 1 know not well how to receive, or in what tenr.s to acknowledge. When, upon... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...in the annals of literary history. " I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The 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 - 1816 - 154 pages
...proprietors of the " World," that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, •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 - 506 pages
...papers, " in which my Dictionary is recommended " to the publick, were written by your Lord" ship. 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 terms to ac" knowledge. " When... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, February 7, 1755. " I HATE 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 su distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know... | |
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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... 
