 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 pages
...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 of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the EnglM IHetiuunry was written with little assistanee of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft ohscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, hut amid ineonvenienee and... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he says, " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it. that the English Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 rf academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he remarked, 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... | |
 | 1861 - 502 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was produced 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, bat amidst inconvehience and... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he says, " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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 of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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 tinder the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
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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 and in sorrow. 
