 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...he will venture it, if the Dean thinks it necessary, choosing rather to die upon the road, than to be starved to death in translating for booksellers,...which has been his only subsistence for some time past <LC .1/> 7"-. "I fear there is more difficulty in this aflair than these good-natured gentlemen apprehend,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is CRO@ 3 discover whether the school In question might not be this of Appleby. Some of the trustees at that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 pages
...yet he will venture it if the dean thinks it necessary, choosing rather to die upon the road than to be starved to death in translating for booksellers,...fear there is more difficulty in this affair than these good-natured gentlemen apprehend, especially as their election cannot be delayed longer than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he...as their election cannot be delayed longer than the llth of next month. If you see this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you will... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...necessary ; choosing rather to die upon the road, than be ttaned to death in translating for bookitlltn : which has been his only subsistence for some time...as their election cannot be delayed longer than the eleventh of next month. If you ace this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean, They say, he is en, the army, discover whether the school in question might not be tliis of Appleby. Some of the trustees at that... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...English nobleman plead hard for "the poor man" whom he wished to serve, describing him in his letter " starved to death in translating for booksellers, which...has been his only subsistence for some time past." But fortunately nothing came of it; else Johnson might have been lost to London and the world, and... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he...necessary ; choosing rather to die upon the road "than be tiareed to death in translating for booksellers," which has bcen his only subsistence for some time... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a itnnger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he...and will venture it if the Dean thinks it necessary ; ehooting rather to die upon the road "than be tinned to death in translating for booksellers," which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say he is not afraid of the strictest examination, though he...as their election cannot be delayed longer than the nth of next month. If you see this matter in the same light that it appears to me, I hope you will... | |
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Arts in their University. They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the University will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean. They say, he is not afraid... 
