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Characteristic Anecdotes of Men of Learning and Genius: Natives of Great ... - Page 547
by John Watkins - 1808 - 552 pages
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 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,...
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...unwilling that the puhlic should cousider me as owing that to a patron which Providenee has enahled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little ohligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not he disappointed though I should conclnde it, if...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 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,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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 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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that '.•a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on 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,...
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The English language, in its elements and forms

William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do lor myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with so...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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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Complete in One Volume

Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...also, in the latter, that this of " Love's beiaf a native of ill* rocks" actually has a. "meaning." ot, is at a@v less : fur I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 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,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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...though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1858 - 482 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...thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learnmg, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ;...
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