 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | James Watt - 1846 - 410 páginas
...words of the great master of the English tongue, that " it was written, not in the soft obscuri" ties of retirement, or under the shelter of academick "...amidst inconvenience and distraction, " in sickness and in sorrow." About the beginning of the year, when the correspondence commences, he had returned from... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 páginas
...mechanism, called the mule, "with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1847 - 120 páginas
...of his countrymen who have deserved well of letters, he has been obliged to prosecute his studies, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers,' but amidst the inconveniences and distractions of public life, and the fatigues of... | |
 | 1850 - 790 páginas
...far from encouraging: "with little assistance of the learned, and without auy patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers ; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Though the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 páginas
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may represthe... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 páginas
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction ; in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 páginas
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to... | |
 | George Williamson (of Greenock.), Watt Club (Greenock, Scotland) - 1856 - 346 páginas
...records, I beg to state, in the words of the great master of the English tongue, that ' it was written not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " In such sorrow, it was not the least bitter ingredient, perhaps, that he was unable by... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
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Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. 
