 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 sider
...that 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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 sider
...that 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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 574 sider
...successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous ; I am not yet so lost in lexicograpby as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas; 1 wish, however,... | |
 | John Sergeant - 1832 - 376 sider
...almost to draw tears from the reader, he might be allowed even to depreciate his own work, by admitting that " words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." But even the authority of Dr. Johnson cannot be permitted thus to degrade the pedigree of words, or... | |
 | John Sergeant - 1832 - 376 sider
...almost to draw tears from the reader, he might be allowed even to depreciate his own work, by admitting that" words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." But even the authority of Dr. Johnson cannot be permitted thus to degrade the pedigree of words, or... | |
 | Description - 1835 - 138 sider
...primary arbitrary signs.) (8) Doctor Johnson, in the preface to his Dictionary, writes as follows :—" I am not so lost in Lexicography as to forget that...of Earth ; and that things are the sons of Heaven. I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay and the signs might be permanent like... | |
 | 1852 - 526 sider
...that 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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only tlie instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. I wish, however,... | |
 | 1852 - 512 sider
...structure and composition. He unconsciously confesses this when, in his Preface, he says, " I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." A lexicographer must be able to forget this, and to deal with words independently and for their own... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 794 sider
...supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. i. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven} From The Preface to his Dictionary. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. 2 From Dr.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 806 sider
...supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, fosse/as. Chap. i. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven} From 77te Preface to his Dictionary. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons of which the rewards... | |
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—I AM not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Samuel Johnson. 
