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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson - Page 174
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A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Explanation of ...

Charles James - 1805 - 1236 pages
...military dictionary in our language, which is hourly borrowing fresh terms from the French and German) can ever be perfect ; since, while it is hastening...publication, some words are budding, and some falling away;* that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...юте who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue «•ver can be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are Hiding, and some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some fulling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...distinguish desert; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, fmce, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life Cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...wanting some .who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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