 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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. DR. S. JOHNSON : Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. Language most shows a man : speak... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...with equal justice may the lexicographer he derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation llibone Iangunge, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature,... | |
 | Gerald Molloy - 1897 - 216 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,...language, and secure it from corruption and decay. SAMUEL JOHNSON. If Harry the Eighth or Bluebeard were alive now, and wanted a tenth wife, do you suppose... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 316 pages
...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can secure his language from corruption and decay, that it is in his power...world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.' Somewhat earlier Swift had written ' A proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 314 pages
...with justice would ' the lexicographer be derided, who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can secure his language from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has 10 preserved their words and phrases from mutability,...world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. 15 With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues of their languages,... | |
 | 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
...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,...from corruption and decay, that it is in his power te change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. With this... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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, shall imagine that his dicv tionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, — that it is in his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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, shall imagine that his dio tionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, — that it is in his... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 674 pages
...prolong life to a thousand years ; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who . . . shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language,...that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, or clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation. With this hope, however, academies... | |
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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... 
