...ten years, we are sorry, for our country's honour, to say, is undertaken as Johnson's dictionary was written, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great." So incompetent are the author's resources to the expenses of the under, taking, that we understand...

...that which it condemns,) yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, hut ami<lst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph 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, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely,...

...to happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely,...

...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-crea-r tures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; butamidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely,...

...that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of .nalignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully...

...that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully...

...aftonifliing that it was finifhed fo foon, fince it was written, as he fays, " with little affifiance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the fhelter of academic bowers, but amiiift inconvenience...

...that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...