 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on...learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried ou my work thus far with so little obligation to any...learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried...my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...of "Love's being a native of the rocks'' actually has a "n^eaning." 330 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. "Having carried on my Work thus far with so little...though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so... | |
 | 1852 - 436 pages
...received, or be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on...of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have long wakened from that dream of hope,... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...kas a "meaning." 330 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. " Having carried on my Work thus far with so litlle obligation to any favourer of learning ; I shall not...though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried...though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. '• Having carried...though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less, for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope in which I once boasted myself, with so... | |
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I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron... 
