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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides - Page 80
by James Boswell - 1860 - 874 pages
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...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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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I ani solitary, and cannot impart it; till 1 am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...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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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart itt; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to he unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, » The following note is...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...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, I shall...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. • , "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation effect it produced on Lord Chesterfield,...
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The British Nepos; or, Youth's mirror: lives of illustrious Britons

William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope therefore it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.'''' This stupendous monument of labour, talents, and genius, was published in May, 17»5; and his amiable...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitafry and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no...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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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where nu benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that...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, I shall...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...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, I shall...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 1

James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; ' till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...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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