Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1A. Constable and Company, 1903 |
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Stran 143
... Dictionary of the English Language , was announced to the world by the publication of its Plan or Prospectus . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation I do not know . I once asked him by what means he ...
... Dictionary of the English Language , was announced to the world by the publication of its Plan or Prospectus . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation I do not know . I once asked him by what means he ...
Stran 241
... Dictionary was written with little assist- ance 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 informed ...
... Dictionary was written with little assist- ance 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 informed ...
Stran 249
... Dictionary had not set him above the necessity of ' making provision for the day that was passing over him . ' , 1 No royal or noble patron extended a munifi- cent hand to give independence to the man who had conferred stability on the ...
... Dictionary had not set him above the necessity of ' making provision for the day that was passing over him . ' , 1 No royal or noble patron extended a munifi- cent hand to give independence to the man who had conferred stability on the ...
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