 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our Ianguage is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in...have hitherto completed. If the lexicons of ancient ton«ues, now immutably fixed, and comprized in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...Ianjuage is not here fully displayed, 1 have only failed in an attempt, which no human powers liave hitherto completed. If the lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprized in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive; if... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our Ianguage is not here fully displayed, 1 have only failed in an attempt, which no human powers have hitherto competed. It' the lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixod, and comprised in a few volumes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powei> have hitherto completed: If the lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprised... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if onr language is not here fully displayed, I have only...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, bo yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge, and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience^ and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism, to observe, that if...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive; if the aggregated knowledge, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprized in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of .nalignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not...lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprized in a few volumes, be yet, after the ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 67 toil of successive ages, inadequate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if...lexicons of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprized in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive; if... | |
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It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe that, if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed. 
