The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1846 |
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Pagina 44
... English Language , being now at length pub- lished , in two volumes folio , the world contemplated with wonder so stupendous a work achieved by one man , while other countries had thought such under- takings fit only for whole academies ...
... English Language , being now at length pub- lished , in two volumes folio , the world contemplated with wonder so stupendous a work achieved by one man , while other countries had thought such under- takings fit only for whole academies ...
Pagina 45
... English language that are read with more delight , or are impressed upon the memory , than that preliminary discourse . One of its excellencies has always struck me with peculiar admiration ; I mean the per- spicuity with which he has ...
... English language that are read with more delight , or are impressed upon the memory , than that preliminary discourse . One of its excellencies has always struck me with peculiar admiration ; I mean the per- spicuity with which he has ...
Pagina 46
... English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned ; " for he told me , that the only aid which he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies , sent to him by a person then unknown , who he was afterwards in ...
... English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned ; " for he told me , that the only aid which he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies , sent to him by a person then unknown , who he was afterwards in ...
Pagina 49
... English Language , ' in which are the following words : - “ EXCISE , n . s . A hateful tax levied upon commodities , and adjudged not by the common judges of property , but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid . ' " The ...
... English Language , ' in which are the following words : - “ EXCISE , n . s . A hateful tax levied upon commodities , and adjudged not by the common judges of property , but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid . ' " The ...
Pagina 52
... a little Jeu d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue , prefixed to the Dictionary : " H seldom , perhaps never , begins any but the first syllable . " In an essay 52 1755 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... a little Jeu d'Esprit upon the following passage in his Grammar of the English Tongue , prefixed to the Dictionary : " H seldom , perhaps never , begins any but the first syllable . " In an essay 52 1755 LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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