 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 էջ
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 էջ
...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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 էջ
...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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 էջ
...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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 էջ
...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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 էջ
...modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous; I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that wofds are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 էջ
...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...of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas : I wish, however,... | |
 | John Sergeant - 1832 - 372 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1920 - 552 էջ
...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 —... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 էջ
...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... | |
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that 'words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. 
