THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... collect the testimonies on both sides , and en- deavour to discover and promulgate the decrees of custom , who has so long possessed , whether by right or by usurpation , the sovereignty of words . It is necessary likewise to explain ...
... collect the testimonies on both sides , and en- deavour to discover and promulgate the decrees of custom , who has so long possessed , whether by right or by usurpation , the sovereignty of words . It is necessary likewise to explain ...
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... collect the Words of our language was a task of greater difficulty : the defi- ciency of dictionaries was immediately apparent ; and when they were exhausted , what was yet want- ing must be sought by fortuitous and unguided ex ...
... collect the Words of our language was a task of greater difficulty : the defi- ciency of dictionaries was immediately apparent ; and when they were exhausted , what was yet want- ing must be sought by fortuitous and unguided ex ...
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... collection is complete , I believe I have so far assisted the students of our language that this .kind of phraseology will be no longer insuperable ; and the combinations of verbs and particles , by chance omitted , will be easily ...
... collection is complete , I believe I have so far assisted the students of our language that this .kind of phraseology will be no longer insuperable ; and the combinations of verbs and particles , by chance omitted , will be easily ...
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... collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the progress of its meaning , and shew by what gradations of intermediate sense it has passed from its primitive to its remote and accidental ...
... collected entire from the examples . In every word of extensive use , it was requisite to mark the progress of its meaning , and shew by what gradations of intermediate sense it has passed from its primitive to its remote and accidental ...
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... collect all their senses ; sometimes the mean- ing of derivatives must be sought in the mother term , and sometimes deficient explanations of the pri- mitive may be supplied in the train of derivation . In any case of doubt or ...
... collect all their senses ; sometimes the mean- ing of derivatives must be sought in the mother term , and sometimes deficient explanations of the pri- mitive may be supplied in the train of derivation . In any case of doubt or ...
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