In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 84by Samuel Johnson - 1774Full view - About this book
| Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. (From the Same.) A TASK COMPLETED IN hope of giving longevity to that which its own...that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent. The chief glory of every people arises from its... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, — let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity...forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labor of years, to the honor of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, — let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity...forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labor of years, to the honor of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...a natural tendency to degeneration ; we have long preserved our constitution, — let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity...forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labor of years, to the honor of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labor of years, to the honor of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent. The chief glory of every people arises from its... | |
| Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...would lay down my arms ! — never ! never ! never ! SAMUEL JOHNSON0 THE PREFACE TO THE DICTIONARY IN hope of giving longevity to that which its own...forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labor of years, to the honor of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without... | |
| Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - English literature - 1915 - 228 pages
...ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.' He had devoted ' this book, the labour of years, to the honour...that we may no longer yield the palm of philology /T- to the nations of the continent. The chief glory of every people arises from its authours : whether... | |
| Stephen Coleridge - Fiction - 1922 - 266 pages
...have a natural tendency to degeneration : we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. "In hope of giving longevity...honour of my country, that we may no longer yield 59 the palm of philology to the nations of the continent. The chief glory of every people arises 32?... | |
| English language - 1928 - 580 pages
...it as assuredly are there." The "bombast" of this sentence by Dr. Johnson particularly offended him: In hope of giving longevity to that which its own...palm of philology to the nations of the Continent. Furnivall was acquainted with a work that Dr. Johnson had never dreamed of, the Deutsches Worterbuch... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...Highlanders. Journey to the Western Islands 408 SAMUEL JOHNSON 264 On his "Diftianary Jim AW'AŁ\, IN hope of giving longevity to that which its own...that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent. The chief glory of every people arises from its... | |
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