...and erroneous : I am not yet fo loft in Lexicography, as to forget that Words are the Daughters ef Earth, and that Things are the Sons of Heaven. Language is only the Inilrumeut of Science, and Words are but the Signs of Ideas : I wifh, however, that the Inftrument...

...erroneous : I am qot yet fo loft in Lexicography, as to forget that Words are the Daughters of frank, and that Things are the Sons of Heaven. Language is only the Inftrument of Scien.ee, and Words are but the Signs of Ideas : I wifh, however, that the Inftrument...

...that truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sins of heaven. Language re only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I...

...spelling fanciful and erroneous ; I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are tho daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of seience; and words are but the signs of ideas ; I wish, however, that the instrument might be less...

...almost to draw tears from the reader, he might be allowed even to depreciate his: own work, by admitting that "words are. the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." But even the authority of Dr. Johnson cannot be permitted thus to degrade the pedigree of words, or...

...for the future to disclose. After all we must remember the statement of England's great lexicographer that " words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven," and pray that they may be so united that the word and the thing shall be in blest unison blended —...

...structure and composition. He unconsciously confesses this when, in his Preface, he says, " I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven." A lexicographer must be able to forget this, and to deal with words independently and for their own...

...supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. • Rasselas. Chap. i. I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things arc the sons of heaven* From The Prefate to his Dictionary. Words are men's daughters, but God's sons...

...impossible for Noah Webster to do— he carried style into his dictionary. The man who could say : " I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven," was undoubtedly injured as a lexicographer by an imagination which made him the author of a style still...

...impossible for Noah Webster to do— he carried style into his dictionary. The man who could say : " I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven," was undoubtedly injured as a lexicographer by an imagination which made him the author of a style still...