Three great dictionaries [by T. Hallam |
Common terms and phrases
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Էջ 241 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Էջ 241 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub Street."—" Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Էջ 241 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Էջ 241 - The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Էջ 241 - TORY [a cant term, derived, I suppose, from an Irish word signifying a savage. One who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state and the apostolic hierarchy of the church of England: opposed to a Whig]. WHIG [the name of a faction].
Էջ 249 - ... clauses, or phrases, of a line or a line and a half, sufficient to illustrate the meaning of the word and complete the sense, without altering any other essential feature of the Dictionary, it has been estimated that it may be comprised in less than 7000 quarto pages of the size of M.
Էջ 246 - that the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose...
Էջ 246 - I am sure that if literary men and students of English in any department had the faintest conception of the amazing and enormous light which the Dictionary is going to throw upon the history of words and idioms, they would work with enthusiasm to hasten its appearance. To myself, I may say, the handling of the materials, the two and a half million quotations which the labours of more than a thousand readers, and nearly a quarter of a century have amassed...
Էջ 239 - Une, and noted in the margin the first letter of the word under which it was to occur. He then delivered these books to his clerks, who transcribed each sentence on a separate slip of paper and arranged the same under the word referred to. By these...
Էջ 244 - ... words according to his private notions of their comparative elegance or inelegance. The committee considered that England does not possess a dictionary worthy of her language ; nor, as long as lexicography is confined to the isolated efforts of a single man, is it possible that such a work should be written. This appeal, it is stated, met with a most liberal response ; some hundreds of volunteers began to read books, make quotations, and to forward their slips to sub-editors who had volunteered...