 Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning...  The Monthly Review - Page 2371831Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...deplored than that of those " pioneers of literature," whom our great lexicographer describes as " doomed only to remove rubbish, and clear obstructions,...learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory." They even still more closely resemble those unhappy rhetoricians to whom, as Juvenal assures us, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach,... | |
 | Charles James - English language - 1805 - 1236 pages
...the pupils, but the slaves of science, the pioneers of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish,~and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their projress." I am so far from indulging a delusion of the kind, that although I should be proud of being... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...writer of dictionaries ; -whom mankind have considered, -not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile OB the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not asthe pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope toescape reproach,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...writer of dictionaries -, whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...obstructions from the paths through which Learning and Onius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...writer of dictionaries j whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - English poetry - 1817 - 174 pages
...the 'pioneer of literature, doomed only to re" move rubbish and clear obstructions from the " path, through which learning and genius press " forward to conquest and glory, without bestow" ing a smile on the humble drudge that facili" tates their progress." This being the state of... | |
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