| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - Liczba stron: 582
...harder than Latin) is a practice so common in lexicography, that even the ' network' of Johnson, ' any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections,' is kept in countenance by the laboured obscurities of many other grammarians. We have to object to... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - Liczba stron: 342
...compared their own explanation with definitions in the dictionary. " Now, Lucy, I will give you a woman-s word, to darn,-' cried Harry. " Let us see whether...is something like netting," said Harry. "Is it? how ?" said Lucy. " Why, you know," said Harry, " in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it not... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - Liczba stron: 682
...many attempts, her colour rising at each ineffectual trial, and at last she could not equal the mans definition of to darn, " To mend holes by imitating...something like netting," said Harry. " Is it ? how ? " said Lucy. " Why, you know," said Harry, " in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - Liczba stron: 332
...many attempts, her colour rising at each ineffectual trial, and at last she could not equal the mans definition of to darn, " To mend holes by imitating...something like netting," said Harry. " Is it ? how ? " said Lucy. "Why, you know," said Harry, "in a net, each mesh or stitch is intersected, is it not... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 602
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 604
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of. Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections} — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - Liczba stron: 600
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — [any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections] — has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 604
...expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network — f any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews ; and — has been ollen quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring a thing in itself very plain. But to... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - Liczba stron: 378
...she expected, he at once answered, " Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." His definition of Network [" any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"] has been often quoted with sportive malignity, as obscuring (1) He owns in his Preface the deficiency... | |
| 1835 - Liczba stron: 312
...to explain terms, by the use of words equally as hard, if not harder ! See NET-WORK in Johnson : " Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"! f If our enemies, both open and external, and secret and internal, (Zechxiii. 6. John, xiii. 18.) both... | |
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