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Annual Register of World Events - Page 334
1806
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1798 - 614 pages
...Burke expressing his fear lest so much company should be oppressive to the invalid ; " No, Sir, (said Johnson,) it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched...tremulous voice, " My dear sir, you have always been too geod to me !" This was the last meeting of the two friends. In this year (1784) Mr. Burke was chosen...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...said, ' I am afraid, my dear Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you ?' — ' No, Sir,' said Johnson, ' it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state, indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me/ Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly aflfe6led, replied,...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 40

History - 1800 - 800 pages
...opprcfîive to the invalid, " No. lir (laid Johnfon), it is not (o ; and I muft be in a wretched irate indeed, when your company would not delight me." He continued, in a tremulous voice, " My dear fir, you have a! ways 'been too good to rne ! " This was ihe lalt meeting of the two friend«:. - In...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...said to him, ' I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.'— ' No, Sir, (said Johnson,) it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state, indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous s One of these volumes, Sir John Hawkins informs us,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...said to him, ' I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you.'-—' No, Sir, (said Johnson,) it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state, indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...him, I am afraid, Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to yon.— No, Sir, (said Johnson,) it i> not so; and I must be in a wretched state indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me. Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being tenderly affected, leplird,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...Sir, such a number of us may be oppressive to you,— No, Sir, (said Johnson,) it is not »o ; and 1 must be in a wretched state indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me. Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of bein» tenderly affected, leplird,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 5

James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...said to him, ' I am afraid, sir, such a number of us maybe oppressive to you.' — ' No, sir (said Johnson), it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state, indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in. a tremulous voice, expressive of make an ill use of the book."...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...five others, expressed his fear that sn large a number might be oppressive to him. " No, Sir," «aid zz tO G" 4? a C" n Y vO ٠ / " ab S F7X +޴ V {N7| C 7 * A ω (dC { P ѱ be a delight to me.' Burke's voice trembled, when he replied, " My dear Sir, you have always been too...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...remarked, that the presence of strangers might be oppressive to him. " No, Sir," said the dying moralist, " it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me." He followed him to the grave as a mourner ; and in contemplating his character,...
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