 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...recommended by the Dean. They fay he r is not afraid of the ftricteft examination, though he * is of fo long a journey, and will venture it if the * Dean thinks it neceflary, choofing rather to die upon * the road, than to be ftarved to death in tranflating « for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...recommended by the Dean. They fay he ' is not afraid of the ftri&eft examination, though he 4 is of fo long a journey, and will venture it if the ' Dean thinks it neceflary, choofing rather to die upon ' the road, than tp be ftarved to death in tranflating * for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not...fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those goodnatured gentlemen apprehend ; especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not...fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those goodnatured gentlemen apprehend ; especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not...fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those good-natured gentlemen apprehend ; especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1820 - 540 pages
...picture of a man of genius in distress under the eye of a nobleman capable of feeling his merit! " They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he is. of so long a journey; and yet he will venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary, chusing rather to die upon the road, than... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...picture of a man of genius in distress under the eye of a nobleman capable of feeling his merit ! " They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he is of so long a journey ; and yet he will venture it, if the dean thinks it necessary, chasing rather to die upon the road, than... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...niversity " will make any difficulty of conferring such " a favour upon a stranger, if he is recom" mended by the Dean. They say he is not " afraid of the strictest...examination, though " he is of so long a journey ; and yet he will " venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary, " chusing rather to die upon the road, than... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is not...booksellers ; which has been his only subsistence fpr some time past. " I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those good-natured gentlemen... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 446 pages
...persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not...to die upon the road, than be starved to death in * Appleby, in Leicestershire. See J5oswell's Life of Johnson, 179i)> vol. I. p. 103. N. translating... | |
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... Swift, to persuade the university of Dublin to send a diploma to me, constituting this poor man master of arts in their university. They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty... 
