 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...original meaning of the words is not explained, as his Tory', \ nearly thirty years later he said : — ' Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.' Pioszi Letters, ii. 406. 1 See/w/, under July 20, 1762. 1 ' Network. Anything reticulated or decussated,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...original meaning of the words is not explained, as his Tory', nearly thirty years later he said : — ' Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 406. ' See/ftW, under July 20, 1762. ' ' Network. Anything reticulated or decussated,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...learn better whence they may be supplied. Let me Jmo'VmiC nutely the whole state of your negotiations. Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. " The weather here is very strange summer weather ; and we are here two degrees nearer the north than... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...learn better whence they may be supplied. Let me know minutely the whole state of your negotiations. Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. " The weather here is very strange summer weather ; and we are here two degrees nearer the north than... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...learn better whence they may be supplied. Let me know minutely the whole state of your negotiations. Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. The weather here is very strange summer weather; and we are here two degrees nearer the north than... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...learn better whence they may be supplied. Let me know minutely the whole state of your negotiations. Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. The weather here is very strange summer weather ; and we are here two degrees nearer the north than... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...manners, though without much extent of knowledge, or activity of understanding. 178. Dictionaries. Dictionaries are like watches ; the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. 179. Attention. Endeavour to reform that instability of attention which you have lately betrayed. Perhaps... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...manners, though without much extent of knowledge, or activity of understanding. 178. Dictionaries. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better...and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. 179. Attention Endeavour to reform that instability of attention which you have lately betrayed. Perhaps... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...manners, though without much extent of knowledge, or activity of understanding. 178. Dictionaries. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannat be expected to go quite true. 179. Attention Endeavour to reform that instability of attention... | |
 | 564 pages
...March, 1848, though not exactly as invaders. Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. Dictionaries are like watches ; the worst is better than none, and the best not quite true. A bachelor having advertised fur a wife to share his lot, an " Anxious Inquirer" solicited... | |
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. 
