 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
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 258 strani
...lexicographer, during the compilation of his work—invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, "with little assistance of the learned, and without...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1846 - 380 strani
...might be alleged, hi 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 inconvenisnce and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson returned to Massachusetts early... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1846 - 418 strani
...in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that ii was written, “not in the soil obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amid inconven¿nce and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.” Mrs. Judson returned to Massachusetts... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 754 strani
...faults 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,...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
 | 1847 - 762 strani
...with some assistance of the learned and some slender patronsçe of the great, it was not conducted in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid poverty, inconvenience, and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow,” and that its last parts were... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 760 strani
...faults 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,...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1849 - 468 strani
...encounter others which arose from his own straitened position. ' The English Dictionary,' he reminds us, ' was written with little assistance of the learned,...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' It was even... | |
 | 1850 - 790 strani
...prosecuted these literary labours, so extraordinary at the time, he observed were far from encouraging: "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." Though the Dictionary brought him... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 strani
...faults 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,...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 strani
...faults 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,...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
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