PAGE. THE Plan of an English Dictionary Preface to the English Dictionary Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, &c. Proposals for printing the Works of Shakspeare General Observations on Shakspeare's plays Account of the Harleian Library Essay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini View of the Controversy between Crousaz and Warburton Preliminary Discourse to the London Chronicle, 1757 Introduction to the World Displayed Reply to a Paper in the Gazetteer Review of an Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope 406 Introduction to the Proceedings of the Committee for cloth- On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers Considerations on the Plans for the Construction of Black Some Thoughts on Agriculture, Ancient and Modern Further Thoughts on Agriculture THE PL AN OF AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP DORMER, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRE TARIES OF STATE. MY LORD, WHEN first I undertook to write an English Dictionary, I had no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy, nor prospect of any other advantage than the price of my labour. I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience, and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution. Whether this opinion, so long transmitted, and so widely propagated, had its beginning from truth and nature, or from accident and prejudice ; whether it be decreed by the authority of reason, or the tyranny of ignorance, that of all the candidates for literary praise, the I VOL. II. |
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