THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall I think it any reproach to my diligence , that I AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 29.
... my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall I think it any reproach to my diligence , that I AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 29.
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think it any reproach to my diligence , that I have retired without a triumph , from a contest with united academies , and long successions of learned compilers . I cannot hope , in the warmest mo- ments , to preserve so much caution ...
think it any reproach to my diligence , that I have retired without a triumph , from a contest with united academies , and long successions of learned compilers . I cannot hope , in the warmest mo- ments , to preserve so much caution ...
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... diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature , doomed only to remove rubbish and clear ...
... diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature , doomed only to remove rubbish and clear ...
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... diligence , or his attainments , it can be no cri- minal degree of censoriousness to charge that ety- mologist with want of judgment , who can seriously derive dream from drama , besause life is a drama and a drama is a dream ; and who ...
... diligence , or his attainments , it can be no cri- minal degree of censoriousness to charge that ety- mologist with want of judgment , who can seriously derive dream from drama , besause life is a drama and a drama is a dream ; and who ...
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... diligence , I hope with success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ...
... diligence , I hope with success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ...
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