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Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
Henry Hitchings
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| #1639030 in Books | 2005-10-19 | 2005-09-29 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.00 x6.06 x8.52l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A World of Words|By Christian Schlect|A small book about Dr. Johnson and his dictionary that defined an age. It is a wonderful effort for those who love the English language and the words that give it life.
Only in his early thirties, Mr. Hitchings is a talented and intelligent writer of the type Dr. Johnson, if he were alive today, would certainly appreciate and inv
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary.
Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English m...
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