...harder than Latin) is a practice so common in lexicography, that even the ' network' of Johnson, ' any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections,' is kept in countenance by the laboured obscurities of many other grammarians. We have to object to...

...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...

...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...

...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of. Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections} — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...

...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network [" any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"] has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring (1) He owns in his Preface the deficiency...

...to explain terms, by the use of words equally as hard, if not harder ! See NET-WORK in Johnson : " Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"! f If our enemies, both open and external, and secret and internal, (Zechxiii. 6. John, xiii. 18.) both...

...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — f any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and — has been ollen quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to...

...many attempts, her colour rising at each ineffectual trial, and at last she could not equal the man's definition of to darn, " To mend holes by imitating...something like netting," said Harry. " Is it ? how V said Lucy. " Why, you know," said Harry, " in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it not...

...reminds us of Dr JOHNSON'S perspicuous definition of net-work, in his big dictionary : ' Net- work ; any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections !' The following is one of numerous kindred communications, which we have received since our last number....

...doctor was in a climbing fit when he wrote his meaning to the word "network;" for he defines it to be "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." Why, the worthy doctor has outdone my oecumenical friend twenty times over ! If we bestowed half the...