| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...harder than Latin) is a practice so common in lexicography, that even the ' network' of Johnson, ' any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections,' is kept in countenance by the laboured obscurities of many other grammarians. We have to object to... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of. Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections} — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network [" any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"] has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring (1) He owns in his Preface the deficiency... | |
| 1835 - 312 pages
...to explain terms, by the use of words equally as hard, if not harder ! See NET-WORK in Johnson : " Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"! f If our enemies, both open and external, and secret and internal, (Zechxiii. 6. John, xiii. 18.) both... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — f any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and — has been ollen quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1836 - 394 pages
...Harry. " Let us see whether you can explain the meaning as well as it is explained here by a man." Lucy made many attempts, her colour rising at each...something like netting," said Harry. " Is it ? how V said Lucy. " Why, you know," said Harry, " in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it not... | |
| American periodicals - 1839 - 606 pages
...reminds us of Dr JOHNSON'S perspicuous definition of net-work, in his big dictionary : ' Net- work ; any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections !' The following is one of numerous kindred communications, which we have received since our last number.... | |
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