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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson - Page 174
edited by - 1913
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can bo that a whole life cannot be spent upoii syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert ; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can e."— Oitian, still more sacred interiors of court...and committeerooms, with venerable faces of beadle that a whole life cannot bo spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 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, some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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, some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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, some falling away ; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...wanting some who distinguish desert; who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can , O sun! in the strength of thy youth: Age is dark...and unlovely; it is like the glimmering light of the that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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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