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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle - Page 592
1791
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation tn any favorer of learning, I...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1865 - 980 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider mo as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." He at the same time made the following correction in '• The ViTiitv of Himnn \ViphpR : "...
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Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and Suggestive ...

Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...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. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ...

James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...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. Da/oid Hume to Adam jSmitfb—Qn the publication of his Theory of Moral Sentiments. Having...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pages
...when no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owinj that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 1490 pages
...not want it I hope it is no cynical asperity . . . to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. And you know, Dr. Johnson would exaggerate tilings, and he said, "Who but a blockhead ever...
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Copyright Law Revision: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First Session ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights - 1967 - 1574 pages
...not want it I hope it is no cynical asperity . . . to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. And you know, Dr. Johnson would exaggerate things, and he said, "Who but a blockhead ever wrote...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...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. " Having carried on my work thus far, with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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. It is while he was working on his dictionary that Johnson turned to the periodical essay—...
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