| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 σελίδες
...Johnson's Dictionary. 1.1 \ To the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield. " MY LORD, February, 1755. " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the ptiblic, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which being very little... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 σελίδες
...noblest lesson to both patrons and authors that stands upon record in the annals of literary history. ' I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be distinguished is an honour, which being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 σελίδες
...Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " My LORD, " I have been lately informed, by the pro-. " prietors of The World, that two papers, in " which my Dictionary is recommended to the " publick, were written by your Lordship. TQ " be so distinguished is an honour which, being " very... | |
| John Watkins - 1808 - 768 σελίδες
...his just contempt, and instead of a dedication, he wrote to his lordship this admirable letter : " My LORD, " I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 σελίδες
...noblest lesson to both patrons and authors that stands upon record in the annals of literary history. " I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the...to the public were written by your Lordship. To be distinguished is an honour, which being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 σελίδες
...reprehension which it displays, is, perhaps, unrivalled. " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " My Lord, " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 σελίδες
...which it displays, is, perhaps, unrivalled. " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE KARL ' OF CHESTERFIELD. '' My Lord, " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 σελίδες
...it displays, is, perhaps, unrivalled. " TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL : ' „ OF CHESTERFIELD. " My Lord, " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, .which, being very little... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 σελίδες
...LETTER II. DR. JOHNSON TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE TUP. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORI), ' February, 1753. I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietor of...very little accustomed to favours from the great, 1 know not well how to receive, or in what tenr.s to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 σελίδες
...resentment. What "My LORD, Feb. 7, 1754. " I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the ' \Vorld,' that two papers, in which my 'Dictionary' is recommended...is an honour which, being very little accustomed to the favours of the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon... | |
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