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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. "
Outlines of the History of the English Language - Page 158
by George Lillie Craik - 1851
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is uot here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt...which no human powers have hitherto completed. If the lexicous of ancient tongues, now immutably fixed, and comprised in a few volumes, be yet, after the...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1865 - 980 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...displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human power hat hitherto completed. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1865 - 496 pages
...in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if oar language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human power has hitherto completed. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 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...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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...
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