 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 pages
...of your address; and could not forbear 'to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which...lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of 440] of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 426 pages
...the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which...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.... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqucur de la terre ; — that I might obtain that regard...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 366 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish, " that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vain" queur de la terre ; that I might obtain that " regard for...contending. " But I found my attendance so little encou" raged, that neither pride nor modesty would " suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself " le vainqueur du vainqneur de la terre ;" that I might obtain that regard for...continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and unconrtly scholar can possess.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself " le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;" that I might obtain that regard for...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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...your address, and could not forbear to wish, that I might boast myself " le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ;" that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. Bnt I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; — that I might obtain that regard for...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.... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...my attendance so little encouraged, till neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it Who I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had...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... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...to wish that I might boast myself, 1e vainguieur du vainquieur de la terre, that I might obtain the regard for which I saw the world contending ; but...little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... | |
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When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre... 
