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Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : DICTIONARIES. English
ISBN : UCM:5326809207
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English language
ISBN : MINN:31951D01255245K
Author : Henry Hitchings
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1429928948
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : Jack W. Lynch, II
Publisher : Walker
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802714218
Two volumes thick and 2,300 pages long, Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson’s Dictionary would define the language for the next 150 years, until the arrival of the Oxford English Dictionary. Johnson’s was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. Modern dictionaries owe much to Johnson’s work. This new edition, created by Levenger Press, contains more than 3,100 selections from the original, including etymology, definitions, and illustrative passages in their original spelling. Bristling with quotations, the Dictionary offers memorable passages on subjects ranging from books and critics to dreams and ethics. It also features three new indexes created out of entries in this edition: words found in Shakespeare’s works, words from other great literary works, and piquant terms used in eighteenth-century discussions of such topics as law, medicine, and the sexes. Finally, Johnson’s “Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language,” seldom seen in print, which he wrote eight years before the Dictionary, is reproduced in its entirety. For those who appreciate literature, interpret the law, and love language, this a browser’s delight—an encyclopedia of the age and a dictionary for the ages.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1810-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Samuel Johnson,Joseph Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081987871
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : English language
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00053072
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600083274
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : English language
ISBN : ONB:+Z178872701
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726356574
Our knowledge of the northern literature is so scanty, that of words undoubtedly Teutonick the original is not always to be found in any ancient language; and I have therefore inserted Dutch or German substitutes, which I consider not as radical but parallel, not as the parents, but sisters of the English. The words which are represented as thus related by descent or cognation, do not always agree in sense; for it is incident to words, as to their authours, to degenerate from their ancestors, and to change their manners when they change their country. It is sufficient, in etymological enquiries, if the senses of kindred words be found such as may easily pass into each other, or such as may both be referred to one general idea. The etymology, so far as it is yet known, was easily found in the volumes where it is particularly and professedly delivered;
Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
Author : Samuel Johnson,Henry Noble Maccracken Professor of English Literature Robert DeMaria
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780300106725
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:15170499
Author : Samuel Johnson,Rev. Joseph Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : English language
ISBN : PRNC:32101037601661
