 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 oldal
...know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 oldal
...know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 oldal
...know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 oldal
...those of other individuals (in which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated had n death, and by their great preparations made it appear...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. onjv^aid which he received was ji paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to himT)y~"a person then... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 oldal
...whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1928 - 564 oldal
...know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1928 - 664 oldal
...whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | 1909 - 498 oldal
...know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 oldal
...know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
 | Bibliographical Society of America - 1909 - 464 oldal
...words. His additions were mainly the additions of a literary man, for, as he admits in his preface, "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned." For this reason the encyclopedic material which Johnson greatly desired had to be omitted. The definitions... | |
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... the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness... 
