 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...thought, is, perhaps, unequalled in English literature. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. MY LORD : I have been lately informed, by the proprietor...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
...world has so eagerly desired to see. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. " February 7. 1755. " Mr I in. M, — 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - English language - 1961 - 216 pages
...has already been proffered is extended. Yours sincerely, Now hear the original : FEBEUAET 7, 1755. My Lord I have been lately informed by the proprietor...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... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - English language - 1962 - 216 pages
...has already been proffered is extended. Tours sincerely, Now hear the original : FEBBUABY 7, 1755. My Lord I have been lately informed by the proprietor...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 Henry Oliphant Smeaton - Humor - 1899 - 390 pages
...did not mind what be said or wrote, and that I had done with him '. " February 7, 1755. "Mv LORD, T 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...noblest lesson to both authors and patrons that stands upon record in the annals of literary history. " I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers ia which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished,... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 396 pages
...death blow to literary patronage. lt shows what effective writing can do. February 7, 1755. My Lord l 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 accustomed... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...Johnson dictated versions to Giuseppe Baretti and James Boswell. This is Baretti's text. February 1755 My Lord: I have been lately informed by the Proprietor...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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World, that two 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 accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what... 
