| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...have been better pleased than I, to find this subject, surely neither unentertaining nor unustful, had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice;...cause of my delay has been a sort of diffidence, that vvould not let me send you any thing so short, so slight, and so imperfect, as the few materials I... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 530 pages
...have been better pleased than I, to find this subject, surely neither unentertaining nor unuseful, had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice;...imperfect, as the few materials I had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division or arrangement of the subject, however,... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...have been better pleased than I, to find this subject, surely •neither unentertaining nor unuseful, had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice;...thing so short, so slight, and so imperfect, as the fewmaterials I had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 402 pages
...friends have been better pleased than I to find this subject (surely neither unentertain>ng nor unuseful) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice :...that would not let me send you any thing so short, so •light, and so imperfect, as the few materials I had begjn to collect, or the observations I had... | |
| John Walker - 1811 - 572 pages
...have been better pleased than I, to find this subject, surely neither unentertaining nor unuseful, had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice ;...imperfect as the few materials I had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division or arrangement of the subject, however,... | |
| John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...pleased than I, to find this subject, surely neither unentertaining nor unuseful, had fallen into ham Is so likely to do it justice ; few have felt a higher...short, so slight, and so imperfect as the few materials 1 had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division or arrangement... | |
| Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...have been better pleased than I to find this subject (surely neither unentertaining, nor unuseful) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice ;...imperfect as the few materials I had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division and arrangement of the subject, however,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...better pleased than I to find this subject (surely neither unemertaining, norunuseful) had ('alien into hands so likely to do it justice ; few have felt a higher, esteem for jonr talents, your taste and industry ; in truth, the only cause of my delay has been a sort of diffidence,... | |
| John Walker - 1814 - 566 pages
...unentcrtaining nor unnseful, had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice; Jew have felt a higlier esteem for your talents, your taste, and industry....short, so slight, and so imperfect as the few materials 1 had begun to collect, or the observations I had made on them. A sketch of the division or arrangement... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...have been better pleased than I, to find this subject, (surely neither unentertaining, nor unuseful,) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice....would not let me send you any thing, so short, so sligbi, and so imperfect as the few materials I had begun to collect, or the observations I had made... | |
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