 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who, being ahle to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at •nee from folly, vanity, and affectation. With Ibis hope, however, academies have been instituted,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, 'who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. ings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by it« strength. The French language has visibly changed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. 61 With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their languages,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, aud affectation. With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...\ •With this hope, however, academies have been insti' tuted, to guard the avenues of their languages, to retain fugitives, and repulse intruders ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...(quai justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a na; tion that has preserved their words and phrases : from mutability, shall imagine that his diction, ary can embalm his language, and secure it from • corruption and decay, that it is in his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way. — Shaftesbury. DCCCCLXIX. However academies have been instituted to guard the...languages; to retain fugitives -and repulse intruders; their vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain. Sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way — Skaftesbury. DCCCCLXIX. However academies have been instituted to guard the...languages; to retain fugitives and repulse intruders; their vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain. Sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...motion, by e celerity, in order to / remove the body out of harm's wayj — Shaftesbury. / DCccCI.XIX. However academies have been instituted to guard the...languages ; to retain fugitives and repulse intruders ; their vigilance and activity have hitherto been vain. Sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. Total and sudden transformations of a language seldom happen; conquests and migrations are now very... | |
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When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce... 
