 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...expression of wounded pride and surly independence, is inimitable : — 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...at once ? How is sun parsed ? 10. " To the Might Honorable 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 honor which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...25. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February 7, 1756. " M v LORD, — I have been lately informed, bv 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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...regarded with pious affection. — (SYDNEY SMITH.) DR. JOHNSON TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the " World," that two papers,8 in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Mr 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 honor, which, being very little... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...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,...from the great, I know not well how to receive, or iu what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...world hits so eagerly desired to see. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " February 7. 1755. " 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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...and died in 1784. t Philip Dormer Stanhope. Earl of Chesterfield, was born in 1694, and died m 1773. is an honour which, being very little accustomed to...from the great, I know not well how to receive, or 1 in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited 2 your Lordship,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...so eagerly desired to see-. LETTER 25. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. February 7,1785. " 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 BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...We subjoin it, in preference to heavier specimens of Johnson's style. February 7th, 1753. 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... | |
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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... 
