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The beginners' drill-book of English grammar - Page 111
by James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 113 pages
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
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The English language, in its elements and forms

William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be to distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. "When upon some slight encouragement...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest...
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Materials for French Prose Composition ...

Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...papers,8 in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or9 in what terms to acknowledge. 1 avancent en Age. — ' as ;' see...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...papers, in which my ' Dictionary' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be d to have been the first masquerade ever seen in Scotland. Mr. Boswell himself Appeared in the I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,...
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Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American ...

Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...and died in 1784. t Philip Dormer Stanhope. Earl of Chesterfield, was born in 1694, and died m 1773. is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or 1 in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,...
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A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. When, with some slight encouragement,...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...To be so distinguished is an hononr which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. When, with some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest...
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