 is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.  The life of Samuel Johnson - Seite 98von James Boswell - 1817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 Seiten
...by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or...your address ; and could not forbear to wish that 1 might boast myself Le vainqucur du vainqueur de la terre;'— that I might obtain that regard for... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...what he called ' civil terms,' to Chesterfield, from which we extract the following passages : — ' When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited...could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre — that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 Seiten
...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little...from the great, I know not well how to receive, or iu what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship,... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - 216 Seiten
...by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or...rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - 216 Seiten
...by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from, the great, I know not well how to receive, or...rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - 216 Seiten
...Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from.the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what...rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address . . . ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 Seiten
...papers ia which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little...Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 Seiten
...to claim some kudos for being instrumental in its compilation, Johnson wrote to him: . . .To be so distinguished, is an honour which, being very little...rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address. . . But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 Seiten
...To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, l know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement l first visited your Lordship, l was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 Seiten
...Papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the Public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little...in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragment I first visited your Lordship 1 was overpowered like the rest of Mankind by the enchantment... | |
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