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I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the Continent. JOHNSON
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, AND ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, A. M. IN TWO VOLUMES
Cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti: Audebit quæcunque parum splendoris habebunt, Et sine pondere erunt, et honore indigna serentur. Verba movere loco; quamvis invita recedant, Et versentur adhuc intra penetralia Vestæ: Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet, atque Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum, Quæ priscis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis, Nunc situs informis premit et deserta vetustas. HOR.
L O N D O N, Printed by W. STRAHAN, For J. and P. KNAPTON; T. and T. LONGMAN; C. HITCH and L. HAWES; A. MILLAR; and R. and J. DODSLEY. MDCCLV.
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Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis TURGOT
BEING AN ALMANACK AND _EPHEMERIS_ OF THE MOTIONS of the SUN and MOON; THE TRUE PLACES and ASPECTS of the PLANETS; THE _RISING_ and _SETTING_ of the _SUN_; AND THE Rising, Setting _and_ Southing _of the_ Moon, FOR THE YEAR of our LORD 1758: Being the Second after LEAP-YEAR.
The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Judgment of the Weather, Rising and Setting of the Planets, Length of Days and Nights, Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c. Together with useful Tables, chronological Observations, and entertaining Remarks.
Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a Meridian of near five Hours West from _London_; but may, without feasible Error, serve all the NORTHERN COLONIES.
_PHILADELPEIA:_ Printed and Sold by B. FRANKLIN, and D. HALL.
There your son will find analytical reasoning diffused in a pleasing and perspicuous style. There he may imbibe, imperceptibly, the first principles on which our excellent laws are founded; and there he may become acquainted with an uncouth crabbed author, Coke upon Lytleton, who has disappointed and disheartened many a tyro, but who cannot fail to please in a modern dress. MANSFIELD