 To the Right Honourable the Earl of CHESTERFIELD. " MY LORD, " I HAVE been lately informed, by the proprietors of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is...  Works - Page 51by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784. (Manual, p. 359.) 212. LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the ' World,' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...enjoyed. 4, To the Earl of Chesterfield. MY LORD — I have lately been informed, by the proprietor of The 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... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...home, and would never afterwards commit such a transgression. Samuel Johnson: 1709—1784. Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield. MY LORD — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...the following letter, which he dictated from memory many years afterwards to Boswell. 152. LETTEB TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784. (Manual, p. 333.) 21O• LETTER TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My Lord, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the "World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - English language - 1870 - 618 pages
...Commanding Arctic Expedition. Hon. JC Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC " To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield; " My Lord, " I have been lately informed by the proprietor of " The World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | Ernest Adams - English language - 1871 - 144 pages
...to that which Providence has decreed to be my lot. /. I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the ' World,' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, ware written by your Lordship. g. Seven years have now passed since I waited In your outward rooms... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...that as it was acquired by one revolution, it may be lost by another. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709—1784.] TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. My LORD— I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the "World," that two papers, in which my dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...be depend ? What kind of a phrase is all fit once ? How is sun parsed ? 10. " To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield : " MY LORD, — I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Earl of CHESTERFIELD. "February, 1755. " MY LORD, — I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the 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... | |
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