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following eminent testimony TO the excellence ot
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The execution OF this Dictionary fully answers
10 its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference Is made TO
AUTHORITIES with respect TO words newly intro
duced, and is taken to note such as are techni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those per
tanning TO technical and scientific terms are spe-
cally valuable 10 the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNuEcIA-
TON. His system of Notation, which ID easily I'M
derstood, and founded ON more complete analysis
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation 10 words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepiss, gives TO
TINS TN work important advantages as a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed TO be consistent, and to
reduce TO the same rules words OF similar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in
nections OF words to much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries, and
the short critical notes the photography, the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Amer
can uses of words interspersed through the volume,
give To this. work much additional value. The &C
pious Vocabulary Of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
nuncation of Classical and Scripture proper names,
are important appendages TO the Dictionary.
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among cultivated English readers, and men Of wide
learning, affords good testimony of its merits. We
confidently recommend it as containing an ample
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Professor of Sacred Literature, It.s,loric~l
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