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" For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections "
Harry and Lucy Concluded;: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons - Page 96
by Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 336 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...harder than Latin) is a practice so common in lexicography, that even the ' network' of Johnson, ' any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections,' is kept in countenance by the laboured obscurities of many other grammarians. We have to object to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of. Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections} — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network [" any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"] has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring (1) He owns in his Preface the deficiency...
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The Textuary and ritualist; or, Biblical and liturgical repertory ..., Volume 1

1835 - 312 pages
...to explain terms, by the use of words equally as hard, if not harder ! See NET-WORK in Johnson : " Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"! f If our enemies, both open and external, and secret and internal, (Zechxiii. 6. John, xiii. 18.) both...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — f any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and — has been ollen quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...
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Harry and Lucy: With Other Tales ...

Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 394 pages
...many attempts, her colour rising at each ineffectual trial, and at last she could not equal the man's definition of to darn, " To mend holes by imitating...something like netting," said Harry. " Is it ? how V said Lucy. " Why, you know," said Harry, " in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it not...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 14

1839 - 606 pages
...reminds us of Dr JOHNSON'S perspicuous definition of net-work, in his big dictionary : ' Net- work ; any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections !' The following is one of numerous kindred communications, which we have received since our last number....
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1842 - 488 pages
...doctor was in a climbing fit when he wrote his meaning to the word "network;" for he defines it to be "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." Why, the worthy doctor has outdone my oecumenical friend twenty times over ! If we bestowed half the...
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