 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 75by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors 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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I aracter of a Dumb Conjurer. — CROKUR. " Baietti and Davips 1 have had a fur some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...To be so distinguished is an hononr which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. When, with some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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. When, with some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors 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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors 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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...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, like the rest of mankind,... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. * When Johnson determined to write an English dictionary, he addressed the prospectus to Lord Chesterfield,... | |
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