...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incalculable advantages on mankind, while...

...meanness of dedication." Such a man when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught hy the lure thrown out by Lord...

...tenderness to the author,, and the world is-. little solicitous to- know whence proceeded the faultsof that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' • | " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable advantages on mankind, while...

...happiness and peace. And how, and when', did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable advantages on mankind, while...

...under which he wrote that work: " With little assistance of the learned, and wit/tout any fiatronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement^...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." With the recollection of so many embarrassments, pressing themselves upon the mind, we cannot help...

...spared out of tenderncw to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...published the plan of his English Dictionary, which, when given to the world in 1 755, he said had been " written with little assistance of the learned, and...amidst inconvenience and distraction in sickness and sorrow." The intervals of this compilation were sufficient to allow of various literary avocations....

...passing over him. His labour* for the information and improvement of others, " have not been carried on in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The Editor presumes he shall be readily believed when he declares, that he considers his publication...

...to the end, and sometimes faint with weariness under a task, which Scaliger compares to the labours of the anvil and the mine ; that what is obvious is...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...