 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...am solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 am known, and do not want it. 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.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it;f till I am known, and do not want it. 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.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...am solitary and cannot impart it ; till I am known and do not want it. 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.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...unwilling that the puhlic should cousider me as owing that to a patron which Providenee has enahled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little ohligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not he disappointed though I should conclnde it, if... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been receired, or to be unwilling that the public should consider rne as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled...my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, " and do not want it. 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 con" sider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has " enabled me to do for... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been " received ; or to be unwilling that the public should con" sider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has " enabled me to do for myself." What ! said he in more familiar mood to Garrick, have I sailed a long and difficult voyage round the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...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...my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...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." What ! said he in more familiar mood to Garrick, have I sailed a long and difficult voyage round the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. 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.... | |
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The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope... 
