 I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.  Samuel Johnson - Page 46by Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1791 - 728 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the publick Ihould confider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myfelf. Having carried on my work thus far with fo little obligation to any favourer of learning, I... | |
 | Christian Felix Weisse - 1792 - 338 pages
...oblio-ations where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the publick fhould confider me as owing that to a Patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myfelf. £). Slfcdttlg t>ertbcit>ia(e einfí ben Sorb (Efjflterftelb gegm 3f. unb ro&nue feine greunblic^feit... | |
 | 1796 - 512 pages
...obligagations where no benefit has been received, dr to be unwilling that the public Ihould confider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myfelf. " Having carried on ray work thus far, with fo little obligation to any favourer of learning,... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public fhould confider me ' as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has ' enabled me to do for myfelf. ' Having carried on my work thus far with fi> little obligation to any favourer of learning,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which...shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that- to a Patron, which...shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, would annex to it his information to me, that whereas it is said in the letter that ' no assistance... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which...shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...ligations where no benefit has been re"*' ceived ; or] to be unwilling that the publick ftiould confider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myfelf. \ " Having carried on my work thus far '' with fo little obligation to any favourer of " learning,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received ; or] to be unwilling that the pub.** lick fhould confider me as owing that to a " patron, which Providence has enabled me " to do for myfelf. " Having carried on my work thus far " with fo little obligation to any favourer of ** learning,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...i* no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing...that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me ta do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus. far, with so little obligations to any favourer-... | |
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