 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 σελίδες
...for our language. 2. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February 7, 1755. MY LORD — I have lately been 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 σελίδες
...patronage : — 282 283 SAMUEL JOHNSON'S LETTER TO LORD CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, — I have lately been cumbered with elisions. The Dutch so, of the other...side, with consonants, that they cannot yield the s public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | 1878 - 446 σελίδες
...more propriety though less copiousness of sentiment. ./ LETTER TO THE EAUL OP CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of '...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... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 σελίδες
...desired to see : "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield. " February 1, 1T75. "MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of '.The...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 σελίδες
...indignant epistolary composition which our language contains : — 'February 7, 1755. ' MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...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... | |
 | 1880 - 556 σελίδες
...his mind in a letter which was not published till it came out in Boswell's biography " My Lord.— I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 σελίδες
...— all combine to excite respect and admiration. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...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... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 σελίδες
...will come uncalled into his thoughts 40 to-morrow. LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 σελίδες
...through him, of the listening world, that patronage should be no more."] MY LORD, — I have lately been 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 honor which, being very little accustomed... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 644 σελίδες
...most fralling results. Dr. Samuel Johnson to the, Karl of Chesterfield February, 1775. My Lord,—I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommends 1 to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which,... | |
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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... 
