 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. 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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for1 myself. Having carried on rny work thus far2 with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should3 conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have long been wakened from that dream of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...naliv* of IIM rocka" actually kat a " meaning." "Having carried on my Work thus far wilh so lilile obligation to any favourer of learning ; I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude ii, if less be possible, with less: for ] have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 492 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...of his best poetical production ; ami when Dr. Madden, some years after, gave him the some sum tor "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, 1 shall not be disappointed though 1 should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...when IH, M*6aen. swine years after, gave him the same sum for " Having carried on my work thus fir with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though 1 should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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 on...disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be pos sible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope in which I once boasted... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...should consider uie as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Ilaving carried on my work thus far with so little obligation...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 1 should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though 1 should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream... | |
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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... 
