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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 592
1791
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider l ! And when the shadow's rapid growth Proclaimed the noon-tide hour e myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 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. *The KnflUtt Dictionary. t Were time and printer's spare of no value, it were easy to wftih...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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 people's art union. The historic gallery of portraits & paintings, with ...

People - 1845 - 346 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." Tills stupendous monument of labour, talents, and genius, was published in May, 1755 ; and...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 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. "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 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.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary workmen....
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 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.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary workmen....
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Part 2

John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 1294 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.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary workmen....
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 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. remembered, that Johnson's Introduction to Lord Chester, fleld did not take place till his...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 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,...
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