 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 pages
...lordship's must humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. LAST PARAGRAPH OF THE PREFACE TO THE DICTIONARY Though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to...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... | |
 | Franklin Bowditch Dexter - 1912 - 870 pages
...potest atque addit acervo Quern struit hand ignara ac non incauta futuri. Horace, Sat., I, i, 33-35. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed. Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary. Claudite iam rivos, pueri: sat prata biberunt. Vergil,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1912 - 456 pages
...useful diligence will at last prevail, and there never can be wanting some who distinguish desert. ... In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed.' AE RANDALL. HOKE-DAY. WHAT is the meaning of Hoke-Day, and what is its origin ? Various answers have... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - 1913 - 392 pages
...Macaulay seems to have ? Home Tooke so deeply shows Johnson's style at its best. It is as follows : " 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... | |
 | 1910 - 162 pages
...Johnson's Dictionary, with which you are all doubtless familiar, makes a grand beginning for our report. "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed. However, only half of this quotation can be correctly applied to our report, and for fear you may not... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 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...it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed ; 20 and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...left to time." "I deliver 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 266 pages
...speaking of, I neither can nor will allow it. •Tatler, No. 116. SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-1784 THE DICTIONARY 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... | |
 | F. Douglas Reville - 1920 - 476 pages
...Press, Paris. One well known writer, in his preface to a production involving laborious detail, said: "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." It is hoped that to a modified extent a similar claim can be made in this instance and in any event... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 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...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... 
