Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning... The Monthly Review - Seite 2371831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1813 - 996 Seiten
...deplored than that of those " pioneers of literature," whom our great lexicographer describes as " doomed only to remove rubbish, and clear obstructions,...learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory." They even still more closely resemble those unhappy rhetoricians to whom, as Juvenal assures us, the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach,... | |
| Charles James - 1805 - 1236 Seiten
...the pupils, but the slaves of science, the pioneers of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish,~and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their projress." I am so far from indulging a delusion of the kind, that although I should be proud of being... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries ; -whom mankind have considered, -not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile OB the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not asthe pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope toescape reproach,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries -, whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...obstructions from the paths through which Learning and Onius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 Seiten
...writer of dictionaries j whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
| Charles Frederick Bennett - 1817 - 174 Seiten
...the 'pioneer of literature, doomed only to re" move rubbish and clear obstructions from the " path, through which learning and genius press " forward to conquest and glory, without bestow" ing a smile on the humble drudge that facili" tates their progress." This being the state of... | |
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