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" His laborious comparison of twenty languages, though never published, bore fruit in his own mind, and his training placed him both in knowledge and judgment far in advance of Johnson as a philologist. Webster's... "
Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those ...
by Daniel Defoe - 1724
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 3

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 pages
...Dictionary of Quotations and translated WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. From the QUARTEBLY EEVIKW, Oct. 1873. " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...who faced the task of the English Dictionary with a fall appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical results." • • • •. " His...
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Beaumont and Fletcher: Or, The Finest Scenes, Lyrics, and Other Beauties of ...

Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 604 pages
...GARDEN. * STANDAKD WORKS PUBLISHED BS WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. From the QUABTEBLY EKYIKW, Oct. 1873. " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical jresults." • • • *. " His laborious comparison of twenty languages, though never published, bore...
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The Coin Collector's Manual, Or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the ...

Henry Noel Humphreys - Coins - 1869 - 414 pages
... WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. From the QUABTEBLT KEVIEW, Oct., 1873. " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...his own mind, and his training placed him both in - Vnr>w1oi3rfa a-nA iiifjfTTYiortf for ir> o^Tra-n^af\F .TohnSOn 33 a philologist. sh Language ' was...
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Morphy's Games of Chess: Being the Best Games Played by the Distinguished ...

Paul Charles Morphy - Chess - 1872 - 534 pages
...&C. . . STANDARD WORKS PUBLISHED BY WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. From the QUABTERLY EEYIEW, Oct., 1873. " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...who faced the task of the English Dictionary with я full appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical results." " His laborious comparison...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 596 pages
...before Johnson was followed by Webster, an American writer, who had indeed little of his genius, but who faced the task of the English Dictionary with...appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical result. An interesting sketch of Noah Webster's life will be found in the new edition of his dictionary...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...before Johnson was followed by Webster, an American writer, who had indeed little of his genius, but who faced the task of the English Dictionary with...appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical result. An interesting sketch of Noah Webster's life will be found in the new edition of his dictionary...
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The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education ..., Volume 11

Education - 1874 - 658 pages
...and speaks of the leading Lexicons of the language. Space only permits the "following extracts:— " Seventy years passed before Johnson was followed by...requirements, leading to better practical results. " As to the Spelling-book, the astonishing statement is made that twenty-four millions of It were sold...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 4

Education - 1874 - 680 pages
...and speaks of :fe leading Lexicons of the language. Space only permits the following extracts:— " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical resultó. " As to the Spelling-book, the astonishing statement is made that twenty-four millions of...
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The Comedies of Aristophanes, Volume 1

Aristophanes - Athens (Greece) - 1874 - 398 pages
...Churchman. STANDARD WORKS PUBLISHED B? WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. From the QTJARTEBLY EKVIBW, Oct. 1873. " " Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...appreciation of its requirements, leading to better practical_results." • • • «. " His laborious comparison of twenty languages, though never published,...
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The Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education, Volume 27

Education - 1874 - 668 pages
...and apeakt of the leading Lexicons of the language. Space only permits the following extracts: — 11 Seventy years passed before JOHNSON was followed by...the English Dictionary with a full appreciation of ita requirement*, leading to better practical results. "As to the Spelling-book, the astonishing atntcmcnt...
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