 | 1857 - 574 pages
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he remarked, with little assistance of the learned, and without...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." His memorable letter to Lord Chesterfield, to whom the prospectus of the Dictionary was originally... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 638 pages
...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemus ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction ; in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to ..-form it, that the English Dictionary was written with little...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | 1861 - 502 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little so. licitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was produced with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great, — not in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or tinder the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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...assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of tlu great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but... | |
 | 1865 - 980 pages
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary " was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great;...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
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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 of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow... 
