 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. 21 15. Home Tooke. John Horne, an eminent English politician and philologist, whose conversational... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 342 pages
...that the publick 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...most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. BERNARD MANDEVILLE [1670-1733]. From ' The Fable of the Bees ' [1706], VAST numbers throng'd the fruitful... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...that the publick 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...most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. BERNARD MANDEVILLE [1670-1733]. From ' The Fable of the Bees ' [1706]. VAST numbers throng'd the fruitful... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...that the publick 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...most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. BERNARD MANDEVILLE [1670-1733]. From ' The Fable of the Bees ' [1706]. VAST numbers throng'd the fruitful... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. DR. JOHNSON'S LAST LETTER TO HIS AGED MOTHER Dear Honored Mother: NEITHER your condition nor your character... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for...your Lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. ,,_: ; r... THE DUTY OF FORGIVENESS. RAMBLER, WISE man will make haste to forgive,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1928 - 392 pages
...obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, should less be possible, with less; for I have been long...Your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON HE critics, I believe, have made a distinction between large men and great men. Samuel... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I...most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON. (1765) THAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead,... | |
 | Ida Ehrlich - Education - 2005 - 587 pages
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less he possible, with less; for I have been long wakened...Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant; Sam. Johnson (From Samuel Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield.) KEY NO. 249 OSS • OSTEO bone is the Root OSS,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...far with so little obligation to any favourer of Learning I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less, for I...Your Lordship's Most humble, most obedient Servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON4 The signature applies the finishing touch to Chesterfield and his pretensions. Yet... | |
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Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted... 
