 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 sider
...always more efficacions than precept. Chap. mx. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Chap. xlri. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the danghters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven? Preface to hit Dictionary. Words are men's... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 sider
...more efficacious than precept. Chap. Xfjc. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Chti/>. xlri. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that...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 Biulter't Monument.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 sider
...always more efficacious than precept. Chap. XXL The endearing elegance of female friendship. Chap. x!ri. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that...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'» Monument.... | |
 | 1909 - 498 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...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,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 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,... | |
 | 1910 - 482 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...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,... | |
 | 1910 - 468 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,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1917 - 754 sider
...not consult, going rather to the originals), for I recall somewhere to have read that once he said, "I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and things the sons of heaven." But my answer would remind the protesting: that it is chiet y through the... | |
 | Amy Cruse - 1919 - 666 sider
...for antiquity, and a grammarian's regard to the genius of our tongue " ; and he adds, " I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." " The English dictionary," he says in conclusion, " was written with little assistance of the learned,... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 sider
...more efficacious than precept. Chap. zax. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Chap. xlvi. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are tile daughters of earth, and that things are the eons of heaven.' Preface to his Dictionary. Words... | |
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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. 
