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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. "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 125
by Englishmen - 1836
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 12

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...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 ; not in the foft obfcurities of retirement, or under the fhelter of academic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 12

1816 - 764 pages
...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...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 16

1818 - 904 pages
...whose well-known language we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued " with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academit bowers, but innidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow*." An exile from...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1818 - 896 pages
...his useless, iu proportion to its vul- almost incredible labours were pur1017.] sued " with liltle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of académie bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor row"." An exile...
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The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 9

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pages
...of our countrymen who have deserved well of letters, he has heen obliged to prosecute his studies, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers," but amidst the inconveniences and distractions of public life, and the fatigues of his honourable profession....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary" was written with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 4

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 402 pages
...minister, than to his great merits as a lexicographer ? He says himself, that his Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without...great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of " academic bowers." "Were the Biographia Britannica, and the Encyclopedia...
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