 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 458 sider
...truth may not be fuccefsfully taught by modes of fuelling fanciful and erroneous : I am not yet fo loft in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the Jons-of heaven. Language is only the. inilrument of fcience, and words are but the figns of ideas:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sider
...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 - 1809 - 488 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 tfiat things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but... | |
 | Thomas Hare - 1821 - 552 sider
...those arcana of physiology which nature does not permit us to penetrate : for it must be remembered that" words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven." That the process of digestion is both chemical and mechanical, seems sufficiently established : but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 432 sider
...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 - 1824 - 416 sider
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hare - 1824 - 392 sider
...those arcana of physiology which nature does not permit us to penetrate: for it must be remembered that " words are the daughters of Earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven." That the process of digestion is both chemical and mechanical, seems sufficiently established: but... | |
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—I AM not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Samuel Johnson. 
