...which case his inflexible regard to truth would have been violated, had he affected diffidence,) but with speculative perfection; as he, who can outstrip...sensible of his deficiency when he runs against time. \Vell might • he say, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned;"...

...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 of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...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 of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...dictionary, though he chose to conceal his name. " Well might he say," remarks Boswell of his friend, that " the English Dictionary was written with little...of the learned ; for he told me, that the only aid he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he...

...dictionary, though he chose to conceal his name. " Well might he say," remarks Boswell of his friend that " the English Dictionary was written with little...of the learned; for he told me, that the only aid he received was a paper containing twenty etymologies, sent to him by a person then unknown, who he...

...know whence proceed 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 of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...know whence proceed 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 of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...know whence proceed 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 of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...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 of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...

...know whence proceed 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 of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter...