 | James James Lowry Clifford, Donald Johnson Greene - 1970 - 704 pages
...to fear and hope from censure and from praise. To captious critics, however, we offer one reminder: "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." :««-:«w«:-5:-« ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ORIGINALLY this list was planned in collaboration with James E.... | |
 | James James Lowry Clifford, Donald Johnson Greene - 1970 - 704 pages
...to fear and hope from censure and from praise. To captious critics, however, we offer one reminder: "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." »»»»»»:^^^ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ORIGINALLY this list was planned in collaboration with James E. Tobin,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...conclusion is so irresistibly pathetic, that it is impossible to read the passage without shedding a tear. " In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much also is performed ; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author, (and the world... | |
 | Geoffrey Macnab - Performing Arts - 1993 - 324 pages
...company. where the competing demands of 'art' and 'business' were both accommodated. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In this work. when it shall be found that much is omitted. let it not he forgotten that much likewise is performed: and though no hook was ever spared out of tenderness... | |
 | Herbert C. Morton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 364 pages
...however defective and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavored well. . . . When it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise has been performed. Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary Webster's Third Nero International Dictionary... | |
 | R.D. Noble, S.A. Stern - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 738 pages
...lexicographer and author, Samuel Johnson, who in 1755 wrote about his dictionary (one of the first compiled): "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...be forgotten, that much likewise is performed..." ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The authors are grateful for the financial support of the Bundesministerium fur Forschung... | |
 | Alan C. Tribble - Science - 1996 - 420 pages
...available here. We therefore, humbly beseech the reader to bear in mind the words of the wise man: "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." (Samuel Johnson, preface to Dictionary of the English Language, 1755). Long Beach, California April... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...inevitably bring to mind its omissions and weaknesses. But as Johnson says in the Preface to his Dictionary, "In this work, when it shall be found that much is...not be forgotten that much likewise is performed." Not all introductory books introduce in the same way. This one does not aim to cover all aspects of... | |
 | K. Alan Snyder - History - 2002 - 302 pages
...they will regret the undertaking.49 These words echo the preface to Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary: 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;... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...through difference, against and on the verge of endings, in both senses - death and the ends of activity: In this work, when it shall be found that much is...omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is achieved.7" This secret horrour of the last is inseparable from a thinking being whose life is limited,... | |
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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... 
