 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...with so little obligation to any favourer of learning1, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for...Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON2.' ' While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 pages
...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...Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant, 'SAM. JOHNSON2.' ' While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...most humble, most obedient servant, "SAM. JOHNSON." Lord Chesterfield showed uncommon wisdom in not attempting a reply, but he made some efforts to appease... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 330 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...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. OLIVER GOLDSMITH TO DANIEL HODSON. TEMPLE EXCHANGE COFFEE-HOUSE, NEAR TEMPLE BAR, December 27, 1757.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...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...Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. Boswell's Life of 'Johnson, \. 261. JOHNSON having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do ife of his friend John BeU, Esq., brother of the Rev....works. It is in English (»rose, and has so little "Í " While this was the talk of the town," says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me, "I happened to visit... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 428 pages
...cannot employ it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it ; till I am known and do not want it. ... Having carried on my work thus far with so little...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. It had been a hard school. But the contempt which George I. and II. and Walpole had evinced for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 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." It is not hard to imagine the effect of such a letter upon the man who received it. As a recent biographer... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...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...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. DAVID HUME [David Hume was born in 1711, and died in 1776. Rewrote many essays upon the topics which... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...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...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. DAVID HUME [David Hume was born in 1711, and died in 1776. Rewrote many essays upon the topics which... | |
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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... 
