Prejudice, and melevolence of some, yet there has been Received it that it may appear to their neighbours that theyĪre no way indebted to such works for their knowledge Īnd that themselves are the most proper persons to haveīut, though we have thus laboured under the ignorance, Gained some smattering knowledge, set up for critics, andĪre the most ready to snap at the hand by whom they have Of certain persons belonging to them, who, when they have Labour (particularly it is so with those that appear periodiĬally before completed, as this has done) under the disĪdvantage arising from the gross ignorance and invidiousness It is, however, the fate of such performances, publishedįor the use of one or two mechanical branches only, to Insertion ofseveral words in the subsequent work. The sensible and candid of both branches, will consider the With already but rather approve of his strict attention inĭirecting entire strangers. Into his descriptive picture, those which we are familiar We are seldom offended with the geographer, for inserting Whenwe view the maps ofwell-known places and roads, With, as a part of their mother tongue, before it made its Put before nouns, to express their relation or circumstances :Īnd there are thousands ofother words in that justly celebratĮd performance, that the most illiterate were acquainted In his immortal Dictionary, that a, an, and the, are articles
That are springing up before them and for foreigners too, On the contrary, they wisely think for the rising generation
Which are, therefore, not to be introduced into their work. The public are supposed already to be acquainted with, and Writers who never make an estimate of those words that Judging it safest to follow the example of all other dictionary Words of both branches, I thought myself bound to attendĪs minutely to every term, as their nature would admit of, In compiling a dictionary, professedly to illustrate all the
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