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this standard dictionary. 4G
The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference is made to
AurHoRITIns with respect to words newly intro
duced and care 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 spc
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNuNcIA-
TIoN. His system Of Notation, which is easily un-
derstood, and founded on a 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 to words differ
emily pronounced by different orthocpists, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRrHoaRAPHY he has made no
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, be has aimed to be Consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words Of similar forma-
hections of words to much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries, and
the short critical notes on the photography the pro-
nunciation, the grammatical form aud construc-
ton and the peculiar technical, local, and Amcr
can of words interpreted through the volume,
give to this work much additional value. The &C.
pious Vocabulary Of Modern Geographical names
and improved edition of walkers Key TO the pro-
nunciation of fCassicaland Scripture proper names,
| are important appendages to the Dictionary.
was published; and it's already extensive usc both
among cultivated English readers, and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony of it's merits We
confidently recommend it as containing an ample
and careful view Of the present state Of our Ian
JARED SPARKS, LID.
Mclean Professor Of Ancient and Modern
JOHN MCLEAN, LII. d.
| Justice U. 9. Supreme Court, Ohio
MOSES STUART. D. D.
Professor of Sacred Literature,
Seminary, Apdoyer, Mass.
EDWARDS "A. PARK, D. d.
| Abbot Professor Of Christian Theology ,Theo-
Logical Y semins5y' Wn% AndOve5, Mass
| NLORD, DID.
Prssidsr. %!T2cDrt 9f Ds5tm0uth g College N H.
! President Of Amherst College, Mass.
MARK HOPKINS, D. d.
| President of williams College, Mass.
Be Boyiston Professor Of Rhetoric and oratory
HrfsT assyssa w. IosSsEzELow. UoissSs:'sz. Am.
| Professor Of Bellies Lettres, Harvard Un,.
ALoSSoPorrER. D. D.. LID.
| SIDNEY WILLARD, A. M,
| Late Professor of Hebrew, &c. Harvard Uni
BENZ xsriaiz TxzlE, DID.
| President Of Geneva College. N. Y.
| Professorin Jedorson Med. Col Philadelphia.
| FRANCIS BOWEN, A. M.
! Editor Of the North American Review.
| CHARLES FOLSOM, A. M.
| Librarian Of the Boston Athenmum.
| HECTOR HUMPHREY, d. d.
| President Of 81. Johns College, Maryland.
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| President Of University Of North Carolina.
PHILIP LINDSLEY, DID.
Prcs't Of the University Of Nashville, Tenn.
| N. LAWRENCE LINDsLEY, Am.
| Professor of Ancient Ian nguages and Litera
| ture, Cumberland University, Tenn.
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