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Show Cl ® e c e l c e o m c u o n m but when fome petfo when my g i n w w a t p a me, from latebooks, with an e folicited admiffio L pag m gra t car an fro bee So far hav re k wo f wh ion ora ref th r bef er wri th fr ie ori aut an deavoured to colle€t example fo age lang Ou i&io cent o {fourges of gznmllll; j;g:rotrilno B itsgi; r?ggi i Te;:' sard as the wells of Englifh nndgfiled, as the pur Wt‘k gr bee s caul has, by the concurrence of man a century npfig r;g o‘gh t('l)fll 1.t é lwh fgo ogy feo phr an chara&ez) and deviating towards a Gallick fiructur ng the ad tti adm ftyle o or nd- grq th me vol deavour to recal it, by making our ancien es ienc defi rea fupp ma a fuc onl time late o - dition s idio nati ou wit eafi pora inco an e of our tong an me in re fal o a wel a io fe pe t de ec an f But as every language has a time of ruden an ot re to e ti in m v dr g m declenfion, I have been cautious left my zeal for antiquit be r d u b th fe wo ' ne Si e fi v h d. to er un ge crowd my book with words now no lo wife obferved _o AN RI g S gq ne Si an nf Sp o f ti fi an tr po o le di th policy, war, and navigation from Ralei ds wo li En o n w d fo i n m t lo b u w a id re fe pe ke Sh fr lif o m c o ti di th in which they might be exprefled rdet nt ar ap i ni me it tha a e bi co f b i f unl nd fo i It is not fufficient that a wo mined by the tract and tenour of the fentence; fuch paffagesI have therefore chofen, and when it happene@? that any author gave a definition of a term, or fuch an explanation as is equivalent to a definition, I hav placed his anthority as a fupplement to my own, without regard to the chronological order, that is othe from Bacon ; the.ph;afes of et W the terms of natural knowLedg from Hooker and the tranflation of the Bible geeses y- g m h ee f‘ h e a i E o ti th i ro i w yond which I make few excurfions. From the autho ed é_ tr e: we g l e t o g u n l th I ce ga el an uf o be formed adequate to all the purpofe ‘than paucity of examples; authorities wil There is more danger of cenfure from the multiplicit || Some words, indeed, ftand unfupported by any authority, but they are commonly derivative nouns o adverbs, formed from their primitives by regular and conftant analogy, or names of things feldom occur£ ring in books, or words of which I have reafon to doubt the exiftence might, without lofs, have been omitted But a wor of this kin is not haftily to b e A fometimes feem to have been accumulated without neceflity or ufe, and perhaps fome will be found, whic charged wit e fuperfluities: thofe quotations, which to carelefs or unfkilful perufers appear only to repeat the fam fenfe, will often exhibit, to a more accurate examiner, diverfities of fignification, or, at leaft, afford differen fhades of the fame meaning : one will thew the word: applied to perfons, another to things ; one will exprefs an ill, another a good, and a third a neutral fenfe; one will prove the expreffion genuine from a When words are ufed equivocally, I receive them in either fenfe; when they are ‘metaphorical, I adb}i,t'.l them in their primitive acceptation ancient author; another will thew it elegant from a modern : a doubtful authority is corroborated b another of more credit; an-ambiguous fentence is afcertained by a paffage clear and determinate ; th word, how often {oever repeated, appears with new affociates and in different combinations, and every quo tation contributes fomething to the ftability or enlargement of the language I have fometimes, though rarely, yielded to the temptation of exhibitifig a genealogy of fentiments, b fhewing how one author copied the thoughts and dition of another: fuch quotations are indeed little mor than repetitions, which might juftly be cenfured, did they not gratify the mind, by affording a kind of in telle¢tual hiftory The various fyntactical ftru€ures occurring in the examples have been carefully noted; the licence o negligence with which many words have bee hitherto ufed has made our ftyle capriciou and indeter minate; when the different combinations of the fame word are exhibited together, the preference is readily given to propriety, and I have often endeavoured to diteét the choice Thus have I laboured by fettling the orthography, difplé.ying the analogy, regulating the ftruures, and afcertaining the fignification of Lrglifl words, to perform all the parts of a faithful lexicographer : but hav |