 | Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 596 sayfa
...one part will fhow the deficiency of another: but the writer of a dictionary may filently omit what he does not know; and his ignorance, if it happens...difcovered, flips away from cenfure under the name of forgetfulnels. This artifice of lexicography I hope I lhall not often be found to have ufed. I have... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 sayfa
...one part will show the deficiency of another: but the writer of a Dictionary may silently omit what he does not know; and his ignorance, if it happens to be discovered, slips away from censure under the name of forgetfulness. (PD 135) 8. Johnson, The Letters... | |
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... Dictionaries are commodious, they are likewise fallacious: he whose works exhibit an apparent connexion and regular subordination cannot easily conceal his ignorance, or favour his idleness; the completeness of one part will show the deficiency of... 