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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Page 85
1796
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being 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 was...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being 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 was overpowered,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being 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 was...
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The Young Lady's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary ...

Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour which, being 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 was...
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. " To the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield. " My LORD, " When, upon some slight...
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The Young Man's Book of Classical Letters: Consisting of Epistolary ...

Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished ia an honour which, being 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 was overpowered,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed own. Now let us sing long live the king, And Gilpin, long live he ; * terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered,...
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