...got him admitted a poor brother of the Charterhouse*. For Shiels, who died of a consumption, he 1 ' The faults of the book resolve themselves, for the...great fault. Johnson was a wretched etymologist.' Macaulay's Misc. Writings, p. 382. See post. May 13, 1778, for mention of Home Tooke's criticism of...

...got him admitted a poor brother of the Charterhouse'. For Shiels, who died of a consumption, he ' ' The faults of the book resolve themselves, for the...great fault. Johnson was a wretched etymologist.' Macaulay's Misc. Writings, p. 382. See post, May 13, 1778, for mention of Home Tooke's criticism of...

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...dictionary which could be read with pleasure. The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from...part, into one great fault. Johnson was a wretched etymolopst. He knew little or nothing of any Teutonic the Rambler, somewhat livelier and somewhat weaker...

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...dictionary which could be read with pleasure. The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from...Teutonic language, except English, which, indeed, as be wrote it, was scarcely a Teutonic language. The Dictionary, though it raised Johnson's fame, added...

...dictionary which could be read with pleasure. The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and t wretehed etymologist. He knew little or nothing of any Tcutonic language except English, which indeed,...

...pleasure. The definitions show so much acutencss of thought and command of language, and the pansages Palladi 1-е very agreeably spent in turning over the pages. The faults of the book resolve themselves, for...

...dictionary which could be read with pleasure. The definitions show so much acuteness of thought and command of language, and the passages quoted from poets, divines, and philosophers are so skillfully selected, that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages....

...with which the Dictionary was hailed3' can scarcely be understood now, though still by the student 'a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over its pages V The delight which was enjoyed by the first readers of the Lives can happily still be felt...