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Dr Johnson's Dictionary.
Fol. 1773.

Many

are

the works of human,

dustry, which to begin & finish ar hardly granted to y fame man. He that undertakes to compile

dictionary, undertaker that, whi if it comprehends the full extent of his design, he knows himeel unable to perform. Yet his labou though deficient may be useful.

with the hope of this inferior pra he must incite his activity & -lace his weariness. Perfection is unattainable, but nearer & nearer approaches may be made & finding my Dictionary about to reprinted, I have endeavoured à revisal to make it less repreh

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sible. I will not deny & I found many parts requiring emendation, & many more capable of improvement. Many fault's I have corrected, some superfluities I have

taken

away, & some deficiencies I have supplied. I have methodized some parts that were disordered, & illuminat ed some that were

obfcure. Yet the changes or additions bear a very small proportion to the whole. The Critic will now have less to object but the Student who has bought any of the former copies needs not repent; he will not wout rice collation, perceive how they. differ, & usefulness seldom depends upon little things. For negligence

or deficience, I have perhaps not need of more apology than y nature of y work will fürnish; I have left that inac : - curate we never i made exact & that imperfect is never is completed.

MISCELLANEOUS

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FUGITIVE PIECES.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON,

Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-Street, Covent-
Garden, Bookfeller to the Royal Academy,

MDCCLXXIV,

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