 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 inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Samuel...  The American Educational Monthly - Stran 3061871Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Davis Knowles - 1829 - 344 strani
...might be alleged, in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that it was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers ; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." MJJS. Judson returned to Massachusetts early... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1829 - 340 strani
...might be alleged, in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that it was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of académie bowers ; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...of that which it condemns, yet it may gr ¡tify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obsenritiee of retirement, or under the fhclier of academic bowers, but amid Inconvenience and distraction,... | |
 | John CAWOOD (Perpetual Curate of Bewdley.) - 1831 - 82 strani
...of that which it condemns; yet, it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written, with little assistance of the learned,...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow! I have protracted my work, till most... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 652 strani
...that the tip 11 ' Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any pM; of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of ««v bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." P"j" 1 to Dr. Johninm'i... | |
 | 1834 - 426 strani
...will rise in the estimation of all who are informed that it was written, as the author declares, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow. " Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 strani
...Dictionary was published to settle their language. finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, '' in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the Great,"... | |
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 352 strani
...whose well-known language we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' with little assistance of the learned, and without...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow'—An exile from his native soil, and... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 strani
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes... | |
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 346 strani
...we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' with little assist ance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great;...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow'—An exile from his native soil, and... | |
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