Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... attempt , obstruct the reception of the work . I imagine what the world will expect from a scheme , prosecuted under your lordship's influence ; and I know that expectation , when her wings are once expanded , easily reaches heights ...
... attempt , obstruct the reception of the work . I imagine what the world will expect from a scheme , prosecuted under your lordship's influence ; and I know that expectation , when her wings are once expanded , easily reaches heights ...
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... attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty , which extended itself to the whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief intent of it is to ...
... attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty , which extended itself to the whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief intent of it is to ...
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... attempt , to make lamentation , to make a merit , and many others which will occur in reading with that view , and ... attempted it . This difficulty is increased by the necessity of ex- plaining c 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
... attempt , to make lamentation , to make a merit , and many others which will occur in reading with that view , and ... attempted it . This difficulty is increased by the necessity of ex- plaining c 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
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... attempt which has procured me the ho- nour of appearing thus publickly , My lord , Your lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . IT is the fate 80 THE PLAN , & c .
... attempt which has procured me the ho- nour of appearing thus publickly , My lord , Your lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . IT is the fate 80 THE PLAN , & c .
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... attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed . If the lexicons of ancient tongues , now immutably fixed , and comprised in a few volumes , be yet , after the toil of successive ages , inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated ...
... attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed . If the lexicons of ancient tongues , now immutably fixed , and comprised in a few volumes , be yet , after the toil of successive ages , inadequate and delusive ; if the aggregated ...
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