...aftonifhing that it was finifhed fo foon, fmce it was written, as he fays, " with little affiftauce of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...fhelter of academic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and diftrattion, in ficknefs and in forrow." The forrow to which he here alludes, is probably that which...

...altonilhing that it was finished fo foon, flnce it was written, as he fays, " with little alliilance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the foft obfcuritics of retirement, or tinder the Shelter of academic bowers, but amidll inconvenience and distraction,...

...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience...

...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience...

...useless, iu proportion to its vul- almost incredible labours were pur1017.] sued " with liltle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of académie bowers, but amidst inconvenience...

...we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academit bowers, but innidst inconvenience...

...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and...

...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience...

...merits as a lexicographer ? He says himself, that his Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of " academic bowers." "Were the Biographia Britannica,...

...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience...