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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 47
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 15

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...of duty. Barrow's Sermons, I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations ASPRE. where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the — publick should consider me as owing that to a patron, which ASS. Providence has enabled me to do...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it5; till 1 am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself....
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it4; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. remembered, that Johnson's Introduction to Lord Chester, fleld did not take place...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...it j till I 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...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...
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...be found at ' 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...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled ' me to do for myself.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Part 2

John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...; till I 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...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled ' me to do for myself.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...; till I 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...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled ' me to do for myself.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...it ; till I am 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...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 favorer of...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...enjoy it; till I am 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...owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...enjoy it; till I am 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...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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