 | 1841 - 588 pages
...academic bowers, but amid 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the hman, Colonna has yet an additional interest, as the...stftp, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.' * F be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the l, And down she sucked with her the whirling wave,...enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die. be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated knowledge and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...academic bowers, but amid 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...facilitate and extend it. But, to apply to grammars what Dr Johnson says of dictionaries, " If the grammars of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the toil of successive ages, inadequate and delusive," there is no presumption in supposing... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...distraction ; in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to ohserve, that if our language is not here fully displayed,...which no human powers have hitherto completed. If the lexicous of aneient tongues, now immutahly fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, he yet, after the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction ; in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed, 1 have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed. If the lexicons of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...academic bowers, but amid 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...academic howers, but amid 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...academic bowers, but amid 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... | |
| |
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. 
