 It is an admirable addition to our Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of each word— its birth, parentage and education, the changes that have befallen it, the company it has kept, and the connexions it has formed...  Poems - Page 21by Greville John Chester - 1856 - 181 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...political corruption. The violation of decorum was long, no doubt, repressed by the presence hibiting the biography of each word, its birth, parentage,...the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in ckronolagical order. As to the word Utopia, however, he, in common with Johnson... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...admirable addition to our lexicography, his ' New Dictionary of the English Language;' new, indeed, and supplying a great desideratum — as exhibiting the...the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in chronological order. As to the word Utopia, however, he, in common with Johnson... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 578 pages
...Language;' new, indeed, and supplying a great desideratum — as exhibiting the biography of each word, it» birth, parentage, and education, the changes that...the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in chronological order. As to the word Utupia, however, he, in common with Johnson... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...Chronologically, from the Earliest Pwiod to the Present Time. ••• The Supplement separately. 4to. 12s. " It Is an admirable addition to our Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, us exIiii.itinK the Moftraphy of each wurd — its birth, parentage and education, the changes tbat... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...Chronologically, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. *#* The Supplement separately, 4to. 12s. " It ia an admirable addition to our Lexicography, supplying...desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of each word — ita birth, parentage and education, the changes that have befallen it. the company it has kept,... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 pages
...his countrymen." — The REV. HENRY JOHN ROSE, BD Preface to the Encyclopaedia Metropotitana, 1845. " It is ' an admirable addition to our Lexicography,'...have befallen it, the company it has kept, and the connections it has formed, by a rich series of quotations, all in chronological order." — Quarterly... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - Philology - 1857 - 336 pages
...EDITION, without the Quotations, 1 5s. Half-russia, 20s. Russia, 24s. " It is an admirable addition to onr Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting...education, the changes that have befallen it, the coirpany it has kept, and the connexions it has formed — by rich series of quotations, all in chronological... | |
 | Anthony Grant - Crimea - 1855 - 182 pages
...of languages, exemplifying his (H. Tooke's) principles by applying them to our tongue."— Quarterly Review. No. LXX. "It is 'an admirable addition to...quotations, all in chronological order."— Quarterly Renew. March, 1847. "In most cases Richardson's Dictionary, the onZy one from which I can promise you... | |
 | Horace - 1855 - 342 pages
...of languages, exemplifying his (H. Tooke's) principles by applying them to our tongue. "—Quarterly Review. No. LXX. "It is 'an admirable addition to...quotations, all in chronological order."— Quarterly JReciew. March, 1847. "In most cases Richardson's Dictionary, the only one from which I can promise... | |
 | William Walton - Fluid mechanics - 1855 - 658 pages
...of languages, exemplifying his (H. Tooke's) principles by applying them to our tongue."— Quarterly Review. No. LXX. " It is ' an admirable addition to...quotations, all In chronological order."— Quarterly Jtenac. March, 1947. "In most cases Richardson's Dictionary, the only one from which I can promise... | |
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