A Reply to Messrs. G. & C. Merriam's Attack Upon the Character of Dr. Worcester and His DictionariesHickling, Swan and Brown, 1854 - 48 pages |
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Page 45 - A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., Editor of the Dictionaries of "Greek and Roman Antiquities," "Biography and Mythology," and
Page 25 - Instances of mispronunciation also occurred; and, on calling for a Dictionary, none was at hand. A fine edition of Webster's large work lay on the master's table in another story, but, for all practical uses, where it was then wanted, it might as well have been in Texas.
Page 46 - A History of the United States of America, on a plan adapted to the capacity of youth, and designed to aid the memory by systematic arrangement and interesting
Page 14 - This mendacious title-page is prefixed to a work in the preface to which, "with respect to Webster's Dictionary," Mr. Worcester distinctly asserts that "he is not aware of having taken a single word, or the definition of a word, from that work in the preparation of this" — an assertion which has never been disproved, or even explicitly denied.
Page 12 - ... much knowledge of this kind of literature, as are the several publications which I shall name. I shall not go out of my own library, or mention any work that I was not in the habit of consulting in preparing my Dictionary. Of the one hundred and twenty-one words in your list, eighteen are found in an edition of Bailey's Dictionary, published more than a century ago, and twenty-one in a later edition; thirty-five, in Ash's Dictionary, published in 1775; thirty-seven, in Todd's Johnson's Dictionary...
Page 43 - This Dictionary exhibits, in its different parts, ample evidence of inquiry, careful comparison, and sound judgment. It combines, in a very condensed yet intelligible form, a greater quantity of valuable matter than any other similar work ; and as a Pronouncing Dictionary it possesses decided advantages over all others...
Page 47 - Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his Improvement of the Mind, of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding, but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficience...
Page 23 - School, except Primary Schools, a copy of Webster's Unabridged Quarto Dictionary, or of Worcester's Octavo Dictionary, at the option of the school committee of each town, the expense of the same to be paid out of the School Fund.
Page 12 - I am somewhat surprised at this fact, inasmuch as, from your reputation as a lexicographer, it might naturally be supposed that you were extensively acquainted with works of this sort, and especially with the works which are so well known to all persons who have any just pretensions to much knowledge of this kind of literature, as are the several publications which I shall name. I shall not go out of my own library, or mention any work that I was not in the habit of consulting in preparing my Dictionary....
Page 44 - ... and various pronunciation. We do not hesitate to pronounce it, in our . judgment, the most comprehensive, accurate, and useful compendium within our knowledge.