 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your \OYdship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that 1 might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;*— * that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqittur du •caanjueur de la lerre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When upon some slight encouragement...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending.... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...page 42, note 8. ill the sense of ( to look healthy.' When, upon some slight encouragement, I first1 visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; 2 and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le voinqueur du vainqueur de la terre;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I wiis overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;*— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or iu what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself /.'• vainquevr du niinquevr dc la cerrtr1; time, declined to comply with the request, saying, with... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...what he called ' civil terms,' to Chesterfield, from which we extract the following passages : — ' When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
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