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PREFACE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. It is the fate ... to very few. I have,
notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a Dictionary of the English
language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every Preface to the
English Dictionary.
PREFACE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. It is the fate ... to very few. I have,
notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a Dictionary of the English
language, which, while it was employed in the cultivation of every Preface to the
English Dictionary.
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Such defects are not errours in orthography, but spots of barbarity impressed so
deep in the English language, that criticism can never wash them away : these,
therefore, must be permitted to remain untouched ; but many words have likewise
...
Such defects are not errours in orthography, but spots of barbarity impressed so
deep in the English language, that criticism can never wash them away : these,
therefore, must be permitted to remain untouched ; but many words have likewise
...
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... and emphasis, though it be sometimes such as no other form of expression can
convey. My labour has likewise been much increased by a class of verbs too
frequent in the English language, of which the signification is so loose and
general, ...
... and emphasis, though it be sometimes such as no other form of expression can
convey. My labour has likewise been much increased by a class of verbs too
frequent in the English language, of which the signification is so loose and
general, ...
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Swift, in his petty treatise on the English language, allows that new words must
sometimes be introduced, but proposes that none should be suffered to become
obsolete. But what makes a word obsolete, more than general agreement to ...
Swift, in his petty treatise on the English language, allows that new words must
sometimes be introduced, but proposes that none should be suffered to become
obsolete. But what makes a word obsolete, more than general agreement to ...
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PREFA C E OCTAVO EDITION OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY.* Having been
long employed in the study and cultivation of the English language, I lately
published a Dictionary like those compiled by the academies of Italy and France,
for the ...
PREFA C E OCTAVO EDITION OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY.* Having been
long employed in the study and cultivation of the English language, I lately
published a Dictionary like those compiled by the academies of Italy and France,
for the ...
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| Título | The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 4 Feb 2010 |
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