 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre;*— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...vainqueur de la terre 3 ; — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have bis all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre;'— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all ie art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can pos!ss. I had done all that I could ;... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...vainqueur dti vainqueur de la terre—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...modesty would suffer me to continue it." When I had once ad1 Dr. Johnson appeared to have a remarkable delicacy with respect to the circulation of this letter;... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; 6 but I found my attendance 7 so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to 8 continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 pages
...du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. WThen I had once addressed your- lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...vatuqtittir tie la terre,— that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...du vainqucur de la terre, — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that...which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
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I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 
