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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 141
by James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 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 in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your \OYdship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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The English language, in its elements and forms

William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...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 how to...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 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 in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...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 encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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Materials for French Prose Composition ...

Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...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 or9 in what terms to acknowledge. 1 avancent en Age. — ' as ;' see 5 s'accommoder de. page 240, note...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed ll himself Appeared in the character of a Dumb Conjurer....— CROKUR. " Baietti and Davips 1 have had a fur some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...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 iu what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship,...
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Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American ...

Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...of Chesterfield, was born in 1694, and died m 1773. is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or 1 in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited 2 your Lordship,...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an hononr which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. When, with some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of...
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