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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle - Page 592
1791
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Materials for French Prose Composition ...

Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...page 177, note 1s. no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for1 myself. Having carried on rny work thus far2 with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public 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 so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider ht th.it the creaking of the street door gave the sienal for our depart myself. l The following notéis subjoined by Mr. Langton: — " Dr. Johnson, when he gave me this copy...
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The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton, Volume 1

Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...obligations where 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.' The conduct of Johnson, on this occasion, was approved by DEFENSIVE PRIDE OF THE ' RESPECTABLE...
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The Wits and Beaux of Society, Volume 2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 pages
...obligations where 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." The conduct of Johnson, on this occasion, was approved by most manly minds, except that of...
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A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...obligations when no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public 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 so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...obligations when no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider uie as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Ilaving carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public 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 so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public 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 so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1865 - 496 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." He at tho same time made the following correction in " The Vanitv of Human Wishw : "— "...
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