 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...may gratify auïojty te ¡aforra it, that ibe English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic k bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | John Jackson - Lichfield (England) - 1805 - 308 pages
...astonishing that he finished it so soon, since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amblst inconvenience... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, * and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience^... | |
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Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. 
