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tyranny of ignorance, that of all the candidates for literary praise, the unhappy
lexicographer holds the lowest place, neither vanity nor interest incited me to
enquire. It appeared that the province allotted me was, of all the regions of
learning, ...
tyranny of ignorance, that of all the candidates for literary praise, the unhappy
lexicographer holds the lowest place, neither vanity nor interest incited me to
enquire. It appeared that the province allotted me was, of all the regions of
learning, ...
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Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to
escape reproach, and even this negative recompence has been yet granted to
very few. I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a Dictionary of
the ...
Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to
escape reproach, and even this negative recompence has been yet granted to
very few. I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a Dictionary of
the ...
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Thus have I laboured by settling the orthography, displaying the analogy,
regulating the structures, and ascertaining the signification of English words, to
perforin all the parts of a faithful lexicographer : but I have not always executed
my own ...
Thus have I laboured by settling the orthography, displaying the analogy,
regulating the structures, and ascertaining the signification of English words, to
perforin all the parts of a faithful lexicographer : but I have not always executed
my own ...
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... and exhibit every production of art or nature in an accurate description, that my
book might be in place of all other dictionaries whether appellative or technical.
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
... and exhibit every production of art or nature in an accurate description, that my
book might be in place of all other dictionaries whether appellative or technical.
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
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... and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to
produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from
mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure
...
... and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to
produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from
mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure
...
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| Título | The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 4 Feb 2010 |
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