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Excerpt from A Supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary: Of Which the Palpable Errors Are Attempted to Be Rectified, and Its Material Omissions Supplied
To this dissatisfaction at his undertaking, possibly we are to attri bute johnson's various inconsistencies with himself, and with any due regularity in the execution of his work; but it is also e nally ew dent, that he has fallen into many an error for want of rig tly com prehending passa es in authors, produced by him for examples. This muddiness of intglect sadly besmears and defaces almost every page of the composition; yet is the lan of our author's Dictionary real y commendable, and (as far as at plan has been duly completed) the work itself in high estimation. Were not the writer of the following sheets fully convinced of this, he must of consequence regard his own labour as absolutely useless. And it may be reckoned an unpardona ble mark of (presumption in him, to suppose himself capable of render ing in any egree perfect so considerable a book, by inconsiderable and inadequate additions and corrections. He does however strongly believe, that he has made the double compilation by far more useful to the public than was the single one, and that he has exceedingly les sened the labour of any future ex eriment in a similar way. - But in what respects johnson's metho has here been followed, and with what variations, he now conceives it his business to explain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
