...literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths of learning and genius, who press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing...the humble drudge that facilitates their progress." But the growth of more scientific ideas has brought a loftier estimate of historical research, a keener...

...science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the path through which learning and genius press forward to...the humble drudge that facilitates their progress." Still, I make a plea for the humble drudge in law. He does well to toil and dig. He is making the road...

...the writer of dictionaries, the slave of science, doomed only to remove rubbish," and that, though " every other author may aspire to praise, the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach !" Yes. And let the sigh come out again, Poor Johnson ! " Lexicographer," he writes, when he has worked...

...slave of [17] science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstruction from the paths through which learning and genius press...escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has yet been granted to very few." With Johnson's estimate of the dignity of the work and the recognition...

...forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their 15 progress. Every other author may aspire to praise...few. I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, at20 tempted a Dictionary of the English Language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation...

...considered, not as the 10 pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their 15 progress. Every olher author may aspire to praise; thejfixigpgrapher can only hope to escape reproach,^/...

...the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstruction from the paths through which learning and genius press...escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has yet been granted to very few." ' With Johnson's estimate of the dignity of the work and recognition...

...the lexicographer the "slave of science" and "pioneer of literature," whose task it was "to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths, through...Learning and Genius press forward to conquest and glory." But if the progress of language was a kind of bulldozer preparing a roadbed for intellectual advance,...

...present task and the meager appreciation it is likely to receive, for he aptly quotes Dr. Johnson : "Every other author may aspire to praise, the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach." It will be only just, therefore, to express at once our hearty commendation of the work which Mr. Jackson...

...kind of broad representative anthology - is finally the power to exclude. Samuel Johnson remarked that 'every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. . .' perhaps mere anthologists cannot even hope for that! We set ourselves several rules of selection,...