| John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
| 1839 - 656 pages
...curiosity to inform ' it, that the English Dictionary was written with very { little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscuritie» of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...informed the world in his preface, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance from 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... | |
| 1841 - 588 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... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 pages
...of his work, invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, " 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Knglish Dictionary was written with little assistance t and hardy to the view ; But he soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance rim, And purple-stained mouth ; ' That I might drink and leave the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
| George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 258 pages
...of his work — invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, "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... | |
| Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
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