 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...the learned, and without the patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder and admiration... | |
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 768
...the learned, and without the patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder and admiration... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | George Williamson (of Greenock.), Watt Club (Greenock, Scotland) - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...records, I beg to state, in the words of the great master of the English tongue, that ' it was written not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers ; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " In such... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...written, as he remarked, with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." His memorable letter to Lord Chesterfield, to whom the prospectus of the Dictionary was originally... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...I beg to state, in " the words of the great master of the English tongue, that " ' it was written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or " ' under the shelter of academick bowers ; but amidst incon" ' venience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' About... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...Dictionary was produced 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, bat amidst inconvehience and distraction, sickness and sorrow." 3dly. Of his character as a politician.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 826
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who died... | |
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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 distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. 
