Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... truth and nature , or from accident and prejudice ; whe- ther it be decreed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of ignorance , that of all the candidates for literary praise , the unhappy lexicographer holds the lowest place ...
... truth and nature , or from accident and prejudice ; whe- ther it be decreed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of ignorance , that of all the candidates for literary praise , the unhappy lexicographer holds the lowest place ...
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... truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography , as to forget that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the ...
... truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography , as to forget that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the ...
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... truth ; if my labours afford light to the repositories of science , and add celebrity to Bacon , to Hooker , to Milton , and to Boyle . When I am animated by this wish , I look with pleasure on my book , however defective , and deliver ...
... truth ; if my labours afford light to the repositories of science , and add celebrity to Bacon , to Hooker , to Milton , and to Boyle . When I am animated by this wish , I look with pleasure on my book , however defective , and deliver ...
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... truth , Mr. Rowe and Mr. Pope were very ignorant of the ancient English literature ; Dr. Warburton was detained by more important studies ; and Mr. Theobald , if fame be just to his memory , considered learning only as an instrument of ...
... truth , Mr. Rowe and Mr. Pope were very ignorant of the ancient English literature ; Dr. Warburton was detained by more important studies ; and Mr. Theobald , if fame be just to his memory , considered learning only as an instrument of ...
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... truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expe- dients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
... truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expe- dients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
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