THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... supply of its necessities , or the encrease of its copiousness , to have received additions from very distant regions ; so that in search of the progenitors of our speech , we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone , and find ...
... supply of its necessities , or the encrease of its copiousness , to have received additions from very distant regions ; so that in search of the progenitors of our speech , we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone , and find ...
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... supply of all defects must be sought in the examples , subjoined to the various senses of each word , and ranged ac- cording to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation ...
... supply of all defects must be sought in the examples , subjoined to the various senses of each word , and ranged ac- cording to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation ...
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... supply real deficiencies , such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms . But as every language has a time of rudeness antecedent to perfection , as well as of false refine ...
... supply real deficiencies , such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms . But as every language has a time of rudeness antecedent to perfection , as well as of false refine ...
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... supply at the review what was left incomplete in the first transcription . Many terms appropriated to particular occupa- tions , though necessary and significant , are un- doubtedly omitted ; and of the words most studi- ously ...
... supply at the review what was left incomplete in the first transcription . Many terms appropriated to particular occupa- tions , though necessary and significant , are un- doubtedly omitted ; and of the words most studi- ously ...
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... supply them . For this reason a small dictionary appeared yet to be wanting to common readers ; and , as I may with- out arrogance claim to myself a longer acquaintance with the lexicography of our language than any other writer has had ...
... supply them . For this reason a small dictionary appeared yet to be wanting to common readers ; and , as I may with- out arrogance claim to myself a longer acquaintance with the lexicography of our language than any other writer has had ...
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