...mantled with a kind of sardonic smile, as when in his great dictionary he solemnly defined oats to be a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. We certainly would set down nothing here in malice, or under the impulse of an unthinking prejudice,...

...his antipathy to the Scotch ; in his Dictionary, for instance, you will find the following : — " Oats — a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Forgetting his own edition of Shakespeare, which came so far short of the expectations of the critics,...

...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very .plainly through the judicial gravity with which...

...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with which...

...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with which...

...that in the first edition of his Dictionary there was a description as follows appended to the article OATS : " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." It might be said however that at this juncture the English statesmen were less intent on Legislative...

...by prejudice, than as a relief to the weary labor of the work. In one of these he defines the word oats, " a grain, which, in England is generally given...to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people;" and in another, "pension," as "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent, in England, being...

...Or thus : " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." " Oats " he defines as, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the J>cople." Our Scotch blood got up at this heinous insult; many replies were made, but the good-natured...

...Street.' Or thus: 'Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.' ' Oats ' he defines as ' a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' Scotch blood got up at this heinous insult ; many replies were made, but the good-natured retort of...

...remembered that Dr. Johnson, in order to manifest his dislike to Scotchmen, gave as a definition to the word oats, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people " ; but he had always thought that the old lexicographer had unwittingly testified to the superior...