 | Alexander Chalmers - Buildings - 1810 - 322 pages
...At this time (1698) Queen's College was a nest of Saxonists. Thwaites in one of his letters says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have " fifteen young students...that language, and but one Somner for " them all." Nichols's Bowyer, Y0!. iv. p. 141. the traveller:—Collins, the poet:—Dr. John Dalton, the reviver... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
...At this time (1698) Queen's College was a nest of Saxonisti. Thwaites in one of his letters says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have " fifteen young students in that language, and but one Somnur for ' them all." Nichols's Bowytr, rol. iv. p. 141. the traveller : — Collins, the poet :... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 532 pages
...pupils was great, but they had few helps. In a fetter to Wanley, dated March 24, 1698-9, he says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students...in that language, and but one Somner for them all." This was undoubtedly a sufficient reason for the patronage he bestowed on Mr. Thomas Benson's Vocabulary,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 758 pages
...there; and, in one of. his letters to Wanley, -now in the Museum *, dated March 24, 16,98-9, observes, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students in that language, and but one Sornner for them all." This was undoubtedly a'sutfieient reason for the patronage he bestowed on Mr.... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 754 pages
...to WaiJey, now in the Museum *, dated March s!4, l6'y8-9, observes, " We want- Saxoo. I.^cicons. 1 have fifteen young students ,'in that language, and but one Somner for them all." Thi$ wag ujidoubtedly a sulficierit reason for the patronage he bestowed onJVlr. Benson's Vocabulary.... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 526 pages
...pupils was great, but they had few helps. In a letter to Wanley, dated March 24, 1698-9, he says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students...in that language, and but one Somner for them all." This was undoubtedly a sufficient reason for the patronage he bestowed on Mr. Thomas Benson's Vocabulary,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 526 pages
...pupils was great, but they had few helps. In a letter to Wanley, dated March 24, 1698-9, he says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students...in that language, and but one Somner for them all." This was undoubtedly a sufficient reason for the patronage he bestowed cm Mr. Thomas Benson's Vocabulary,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 530 pages
...pupils was great, but they had few helps. In a letter to Wanley, dated March 24, 1698-9, he says, " We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students in that language, and but one Somi)er for them all." This was undoubtedly a sufficient reasoi) for -the patronage he bestowed on... | |
 | John Petheram - English literature - 1840 - 214 pages
...Saxon tongue there, and in one of his letters to Humphrey Wanley, dated 24th March 1698-9, observes, "We want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students...in that language, and but one Somner for them all." The scarcity of Somner's work, and the absence of any other Dictionary of the language, doubtless induced... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...a preceptor in Saxon at Queen's College, Oxford. On the 24th of March of that year, he observes, " we want Saxon Lexicons. I have fifteen young students...in that language, and but one Somner for them all." He was subsequently engaged by Hickes to superintend the " Thesaurus Linguarum veterum Septentrionalium"... | |
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... time remarkable for the number of its Saxon scholars, one of the principal of whom was Mr. Thwaites, who so early as 1698 became a preceptor in the Saxon tongue there. The industry of his pupils was great, but they had few helps. In a letter to Wanley,... 
