 When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnsonпо Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 страници
...change or corruption of language, that such an effort would be a quixotic attempt doomed to failure: When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 страници
...nature, as well as from the variety of incidents which affect all sublunary things." Even Johnson, "being able to produce no example of a nation that...preserved their words and phrases from mutability, " conceded that neither his nor any other "dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, " since... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 1991 - 282 страници
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 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - 1991 - 334 страници
...of human nature becomes more explicit towards the middle of the Preface: When we see men grow old an die at a certain time one after another, from century...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary shall embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 страници
...now begin to fear that I have indulged expectations which neither reason nor experience can justify. When we see men grow old and die at a certain time...their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in... | |
 | James F. Smith - 1993 - 168 страници
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 | Richard W. Bailey - 1991 - 350 страници
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 | Eliot Weinberger - 1993 - 456 страници
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