 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pagina’s
...office of their Librarian, should have been in Latin." I put a question to him upon a fact in common 1 " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." 2 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pagina’s
...that he had twelve or fourteen times attempted to keep a journal of his life, but never could » " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." 1 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pagina’s
...that, he had twelve or fourteen times attempted to keep a journal of his life, but never could » " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." 1 See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 474 pagina’s
...their own clothes, have much lower wages than men servants, to whom a great proportion of that artip " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found iu a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." q See an account of this learned and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 458 pagina’s
...whom a great proportion of that artip " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean BO much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some...character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." cle is furnished, and when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male ?r He told... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...COVENT-GARDEN. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR MDCCLXXII. DEDICATION. TO SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. DEAR SIR, BY inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pagina’s
...early life. He said, " You shall have them all for twopence. I hope you shall know a great deal more that I have lived many years in intimacy with you....character, without impairing the most unaffected piety." i See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman, and of his curious work on the Middle State... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 432 pagina’s
...expressed in the strongest manner in the dedication of his comedy, entitled, She Stoops to Conquer?. P " By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do...myself. It may do me some honour to inform the publick, Johnson observed, that there were very few books printed in Scotland before the union. He had seen... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pagina’s
...' I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, ou are not sensible of this, who give away your own...I a hackney scribbler; you a Grecian, and bred at The good fortune which attended this drama was productive of its usual concomitante — a mixed insc... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pagina’s
...regularity" and " exaetncst" in that passage are not to be taken in a sense exclusively religious. —Bo. ' [See ante, p. 189.— ED.] 4 " By inscribing this...years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests o( mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing... | |
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By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them,... 
