| Abraham Coles - 1892 - 406 sider
...often wiser than the philosopher. Dr. Johnson, in the Preface to his Dictionary, wisely remarks : " I am not so lost in Lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." The celebrated Doctor on one occasion was found tripping in regard to the meaning of some word. When... | |
| Abraham Coles - 1892 - 408 sider
...is often wiser than the philosopher. Dr. Johnson, in the Preface to his Dictionary, wisely remarks: "I am not so lost in Lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." The celebrated Doctor on one occasion was found tripping in regard to the meaning of some word. When... | |
| Abraham Coles - 1892 - 416 sider
...often wiser than the philosopher. Dr. Johnson, in the Preface to his Dictionary, wisely remarks : " I am not so lost in Lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." The celebrated Doctor on one occasion was found tripping in regard to the meaning of some word. When... | |
| Abraham Coles - 1892 - 410 sider
...often wiser than the philosopher. Dr. Johnson, in the Preface to his Dictionary, wisely remarks : " I am not so lost in Lexicography as to forget that...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." The celebrated Doctor on one occasion was found tripping in regard to the meaning of some word. When... | |
| 1896 - 542 sider
...Century Company. Seven volumes, $10.00 per volume. Dr. Johnson in the preface to his Dictionary remarks: “I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that...earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.” There are dictionaries of things, which are more properly cyclopedias, and there are word-dictionaries,... | |
| 1896 - 526 sider
...Johnson in the preface to his Dictionary remarks: "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget th.tt words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heavtn." There are dictionaries of things, which are more properly cyclopedias, and there are word-dictionaries,... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 sider
...HoBBES. The Leviathan, Pt. I., Can. IV. " Words are women, deeds are men." HERBERT. Jacula Prudentum. " That words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." DR. JOHNSON. Preface to his Dietiozory. Vide—" Deeds tu-r," ete. " Words may be false and full of... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 582 sider
...HOIIBES. The Leviathan, Pt. J., Chap. IV. " Words are women, deeds are men." HERBERT, jfacula Prudcntum. - That words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." DR. JOHNSON. Preface to his Dictionary. Vide—" Deeds aer," etc. " Words may be false and full of... | |
| 1902 - 1238 sider
...lexicographer, who pronounced it against himself and his kind. We are not, if we may use Johnson's phrase, “so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.” But no intelligent scholar can hunt after words... | |
| John Bartlett - 1903 - 1252 sider
...efficacious than precept. Cfinp. xxx. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Chap. xlvi. I ani not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven? Preface to hit Dictionary. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. 3 Boulter'» Mnnumenl.... | |
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