 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself : a few wild blunders and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was... | |
 | Edward Alured Draper - 1806 - 364 pages
...succeeding ages. He says, " When I am animated by this " thought, I look with pleasure on my book, " and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a " man that has endeavoured well." — " In this " work, when it shall be found that much is 230 " omitted, le*t it not be forgotten that... | |
 | 1807 - 604 pages
...for succeeding ages. He says, ' When I am animated by this thought, I look with pleasure on my book, and deliver it to the. world with the spirit of a man that has endea¿ Toured well.' — ' In this work, when it shall be fui:nd that much is omitted, let it not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself ; a few wild blunders, and risible absurditics, from which no work of such multiplicity was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Soyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself: a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milloit, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a mun llmt has endeavoured well. That it will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself : a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on...will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself: a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity was... | |
 | Clerical guide - 1817 - 368 pages
...effects of criticism, as well as disappointment; but can, nevertheless, " look with pleasure" upon his book, " however defective, and deliver it to the " world with the spirit of a man who has endeavoured well." Lyndon, November, 1817. ADVERTISEMENT. IN order to render the CLERICAL GUIDE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. When I am animated by this wish, I look with plea* sure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the...That it will immediately become popular I have not prortised to myself: a few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which no work of such multiplicity... | |
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When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well. 
