 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. When upon some slight...  The Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 72by James Boswell - 1873 - 576 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainquevr de la terre1; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; —that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Levainqueur du vainqueur de la terre1; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encouraged,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,* I first visited your...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself " the conqueror of the conqueror of the earth ;" — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...to favours from the great, 1 know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, β Ȣ 1 might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I rnipht obtuin that regard for which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le rainqueur du vaingueur de la terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pages
...accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might bout myself U vainqueur du vatnaueur de la tare ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...to favours from the great, 1 know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which 1 saw the world contending. But I found mv attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor... | |
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