 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...  Little Maggie and her brother - Seite 6von Jane Margaret Hooper - 1861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 Seiten
...political corruption. The violation of decorum was long, no doubt, repressed by the presence hibiting the biography of each word, its birth, parentage,...it has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in ckronolagical order. As to the word Utopia, however, he, in common... | |
 | 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 - 1847 - 592 Seiten
...addition to our lexicography, his ' New Dictionary of the English Language;' new, indeed, and supplying a great desideratum — as exhibiting the biography...it has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in chronological order. As to the word Utopia, however, he, in common... | |
 | 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 - 1847 - 578 Seiten
...Language;' new, indeed, and supplying a great desideratum — as exhibiting the biography of each word, it» birth, parentage, and education, the changes that...it has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of citations — all in chronological order. As to the word Utupia, however, he, in common... | |
 | 1850 - 524 Seiten
...The Supplement separately, 4to. Ib. ** It Is an admirable addition to our Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...and education, the changes that have befallen it, th« company it has kept, and the connexions it has formed — by rich series of Quotations, all In... | |
 | 1853 - 748 Seiten
...to our Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of each word — ita birth, parentage and education, the changes that have...no other language could ever boast." — Quarterly Jievieto. " A work indispensable to every one who is curious in his mother tongue, and without which... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...Encyclopaedia Metropotitana, 1845. " It is ' an admirable addition to our Lexicography,' supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...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) - 1857 - 336 Seiten
...1 5s. Half-russia, 20s. Russia, 24s. " It is an admirable addition to onr Lexicography, supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...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... | |
 | Mrs. Andrew Neilson - 1855 - 396 Seiten
...tongue."— Quarterly Review. No. LXX. " It is ' an admirable addition to our Lexicography,' supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...It has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of quotations, all in chronological order."— Quarterly Kerieu*. March, 1847. "In most... | |
 | Anthony Grant - 1855 - 182 Seiten
...tongue."— Quarterly Review. No. LXX. "It is 'an admirable addition to our Lexicography,' supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...it has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of quotations, all in chronological order."— Quarterly Renew. March, 1847. "In most... | |
 | John Hind - 1855 - 540 Seiten
...tongue."— Quarterly Review. No. LXX. "It is 'an admirable addition to our Lexicography,1 supplying a great desideratum, as exhibiting the biography of...it has kept, and the connexions it has formed, by a rich series of quotations, all in chronological order."— Quarterly Review. March, 1847. "In most... | |
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