 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much has been performed ; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to its author, and the world... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will comc uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. ry of the Rebellion. SIR MATTHEW HALE, born 1609,...Exchequer, 1660, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1671, died proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...yesterday he know with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. in this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 740 pages
...the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. . . . In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle. ... In this work, when it shall be found that much is...it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed ; ant) though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 172 pages
...has endeavoured well. That it will im-- mediately become popular I have not promised to myself. . . . When it shall be found that much is omitted, let it...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...memorable allusion to the difficulties with which he had to contend. " Though no book," he says, " was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...I deliver,' he says, 'my book to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well. ... In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 pages
...preface the author truly declared, etc. The passage which thus moved Home Tooke was the following : — In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 pages
...preface the author truly declared, etc. The passage which thus moved Home Tooke was the following : — In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the... | |
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... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage... 
