 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 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 151by James Boswell - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...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...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending;... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1857 - 516 pages
...public, were written by your lordship. To be to distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...by your lordship. 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...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;*— * that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...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...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqittur du •caanjueur de la lerre ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
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 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...page 42, note 8. ill the sense of ( to look healthy.' When, upon some slight encouragement, I first1 visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; 2 and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le voinqueur du vainqueur de la terre;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...by your lordship. 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...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;*— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...public, were written by your lordship. To be BO distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...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...your address, and could not forbear to wish that I mi^ht boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre 3 ; — that I might obtain that regard for... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...by your lordship. 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...your address ; and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that I might obtain that regard for... | |
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