 | 1791 - 718 pages
...were written by your Lordfhip. To be fo diftinguiihed is an honour which, being very little accuftomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon fonie flight encouragement, I firft vifited your Lordfhip, I was overpowered, Jike the reft of mankind,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...written by your Lordfhip. To be fo diftinguifhed, is an honour, which, being very little accuftomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon fome flight encouragement, I firft vifited your Lordfhip, I was overpowered, like the reft of mankind,... | |
 | 1791 - 542 pages
...written by your Loidihip. To lie fo diltinguiflicd, is an honour, which, being very little accultomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. . " When, upon fome fiight encouragement, I firlt viiited your Lordlhip, I was overjKjwered, like the reft of mankind,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...your Lordfhip. To be fo diftinguifhed, is an honour, which, being very little accuftomed to-favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon fome flight encouragement, I firft vifited your Lordfhip, I was overpowered, like the reft of mankind,... | |
 | 1796 - 512 pages
...written by your Lordfhip. To be fo diftingttiflied, is an honour, which, being very little accuftomcd to favours from the great, I know not well how to...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon fouie flight encouragement, I firft vifited your LordIhip, I was overpowered, like the reft of mankind,... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...written by your « lordfhip. To be fo diftinguifhed is an honour, « which, being very little accuftomed to favours from « the great, I know not well how...receive, or in * what terms to acknowledge. ' When,, informed the public in his preface^ that his work had been executed " with little " affiftanee df the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1 ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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,...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la tcrre' ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the ptiblic, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which...your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,N by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself... | |
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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. 
