 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pagina’s
...: 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...enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried on my Work thus far with ,so little obligation to any favourer of learning ; I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pagina’s
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it;f till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pagina’s
...delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...me to do for myself. '• Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pagina’s
...till I am indifferent, and caunot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and caunot impart it ;t till I sin known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess ohligatious where no henefit has heen received, or to he unwilling that the puhlic should cousider... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...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...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. It is while he was working on his dictionary that Johnson turned to the periodical essay— that peculiarly... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 pagina’s
...along, as he was now presenting himself, a good patron, nurturing the work and its author. He wrote: "I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...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."... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pagina’s
...and cannot enjoy it, till l am solitary and cannot impart it, till l am known and do not want it. l hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, l shall not be disappointed though l... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pagina’s
...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...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litde obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pagina’s
...cannot enjoy it ; till 1 am solitary, and cannot impart it ;* till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...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.... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pagina’s
...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 it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that... | |
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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... 
