 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...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 where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.'''' This stupendous monument of... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to . confess obligations where no benefit has...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...solitafry and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess 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.... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 714 pages
...and do not wain it I hope it is no very cynical asperity nut to confess obligations where no Iwnefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me a> owing that to a patron which Pruvideuce has enabled me to do for rayself."— Letter to the Earl... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...and cannot impart it ; ' till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...and cannot impart it;5 till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, whicli Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...and cannot impart it;5 till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess 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.... | |
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The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has 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... 
