Sentences with phrase «lexicographer said»

But Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), the great writer and lexicographer said «How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice».

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Although the reformers did not actually say so, this meant that in effect, the grammarians, lexicographers, and historians could reform the Church because they knew better than the bishops what the Bible actually meant.

We have a saying in Lancashire (my home county) that was originally attributed to a New Zealand lexicographer who studied in Manchester (lancashire)-- so he could well have heard it from some local folk.

Samuel Johnson said that a lexicographer can not aspire to praise, but at most to escaping censure.