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    Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
    Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
    Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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    Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

    By Samuel Johnson

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    A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language. According to Walter Jackson Bate, the Dictionary "easily ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who labored under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of time".
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 15, 2022
    ISBN8596547307440
    Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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    Samuel Johnson

    Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) was an English writer – a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. His works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, an influential annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays, and the widely read tale Rasselas, the massive and influential Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, and most notably, A Dictionary of the English Language, the definitive British dictionary of its time.

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