The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 |
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... Dictionary was published April 15 , 1775 , in two large folio volumes weighing some twenty- seven pounds . Johnson did two things that have been done in every good dictionary ever since : he discriminated between dif- ferent senses of a ...
... Dictionary was published April 15 , 1775 , in two large folio volumes weighing some twenty- seven pounds . Johnson did two things that have been done in every good dictionary ever since : he discriminated between dif- ferent senses of a ...
Page 147
... Dictionary ; and because he thought it right in a Lexicon of our language to collect many words which had fallen into disuse , but were supported by great authorities , it has been imagined that all of these have been interwoven into ...
... Dictionary ; and because he thought it right in a Lexicon of our language to collect many words which had fallen into disuse , but were supported by great authorities , it has been imagined that all of these have been interwoven into ...
Page 273
... DICTIONARY JOHNSON , from that wonderful atchievement of genius and labour , his ' Dictionary of the English Language ; ' the merit of which I contemplate with more and more admiration . marginal line : mark his ... him ...
... DICTIONARY JOHNSON , from that wonderful atchievement of genius and labour , his ' Dictionary of the English Language ; ' the merit of which I contemplate with more and more admiration . marginal line : mark his ... him ...
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