 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...runs againft time. Well might he fay, that " the Englifh Dictionary was written with little affiftance of the learned ;" for he told me, that the only aid...received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, lent to him by a perfon then unknown, who he was afterwards informed was Dr. Pearce, Bifhop of Rochefter.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...those of other individuals, (in which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated, had he affected diffidence,) but with speculative perfection;...sensible of his deficiency when he runs against time. \Vell might • he say, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned;"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...dictionary, though he chose to conceal his name. " Well might he say," remarks Boswell of his friend that " the English Dictionary was written with little...of the learned; for he told me, that the only aid he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...dictionary, though he chose to conceal his name. " Well might he say," remarks Boswell of his friend, that " the English Dictionary was written with little...of the learned ; for he told me, that the only aid he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...those of other individuals, (in which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated had he affected diffidence,) but with speculative perfection...as he, who can outstrip all his competitors in the 1755. race, may yet be sensible of his deficiency when he runs jg^ against time. Well might he say,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
