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rnent of the salary , without giving an equivalent . The results of their labours would be published annually , and would be open to public criticism , the best guardian against imposition . To those who object to the utility of such an establishment , I beg to remark , that whoever attempts to enter upon the study of moral or physical
science , is immediately obliged to resort to the meaning and origin of words . 1 would remind them also , that many of the sanguinary struggles which have at times impeded the progress of human knowledge , have been founded in names and words , the import of which has not been even understood by the disputants . Liberty and rights , and the endless variety of sects in religion , have given
rise to endless quarrels almost entirely for want of being defined . Dictionary is a word which implies a knowledge of the use and meaning of language . Let any man take up Johnson ' s English , or Webster ' s American Dictionary , and ask himself if either be what it professes ( o be . The first got its fame by being a bookselling scheme . The last was the work of a man who had not
heeded the advice of the eastern dervish , ' Begin nothing , of which thou hast not considered the end ! ' For a single man to profess to give a history of human language , is about as absurd as the declaration of the German student mentioned by Goethe , who declared at eighteen , that his mind was perfect , and that he should forthwith set about the task of enlightening the whole world . Junius Redivivus .
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392 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL . VERJUICE .
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CHAPTER II . Grapnel . If you approve him , lock within your thoughts The knowledge : venture not to speak at what You hold him ;—that will warrant him to slip The curh ; and like a frolic colt he'll fling
His heels at random : in his wanton sport He'll kick his master—naught like whip and bit To teach a boy his paces . Schoolmaster . You are wise . Grapnel , By such a training , he'll be likewise wise , Such was my schooling—What am I ? ha , ha ! Old Play , ( not in Sir . IV . Scott ' s Collection . )
' The child is father of the man ! ' Is he so ? When the poet set this down , I deem he lacked a little of the true inspiration . He was 4 suiting his action to the word . He found the man , but made the child himself ; or he found the child , and made the man accordingly ; or else his man was a rare creature , and had passed through a very unusual process in childhood and boyhood up to manhood . 4 The child the father of the man ! ' Is the fawn the father of the
wolf or fox ? Is the snow-drop the father of the thorn ? the mimosa father of the holly ? Is the muscadel the father of the crab ? Neither morally nor physically do 1 retain a resemblance to my original self . Would any one who looks on my external animality believe that this
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/32/
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