 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 from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 57by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...have hurt the dog too much already ;" or words to that purpose. . . VOL. I. T 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 ra what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 pages
...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 terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...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 terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pages
...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, 1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have had a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter;... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...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 terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slighti. encouragement,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 pages
...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 from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 pages
...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. le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...distinguished, is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well bow to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. ' When,...encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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 terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
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