 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 pages
...Dictionary and another from his Journey to the Western Isles will give an idea of his usual style : " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...whose career is briefly outlined in The Century Dictionary. The passage which so moved him follows. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 pages
...whose career is briefly outlined in The Century Dictionary. The passage which so moved him follows. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns;... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...whose career is briefly outlined in The Century Dictionary. The passage which so moved him follows. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns... | |
 | 1896 - 728 pages
...execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public." BOSWEIX. " In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | James William Head - History - 1908 - 204 pages
...said of his great Dictionary and himself could as well be said of this humble volume and its author: "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which 30 will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...tenderness to the author, and the world is little little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...light to the repositories of science, and add celebrity to Bacon, to Hooker, to Milton, and to Boyle In this work, when it shall be found that much is...and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1910 - 184 pages
...myself, they will not, on that account, forthwith condemn my production. With Dr Johnson I would say, "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." PH Abbreviations:—Arab., Arabian; Gk., Greek; Eg., Egyptian; Heb., Hebrew; Jr., Irish; Lat., Latin;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is...it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed j and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous... | |
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... author, and the world is little solicitous to know 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... 
