摘要:

The course adopted by the Philological Society, in its session of 1856‐1857, with a view of removing some of the imperfections, and supplying some of the deficiencies, of our English Dictionaries, is now lrnown to many besides the members of the Society itself. Many, too, are aware of the general acceptance with which the scheme was received, as one at once practical and full of promise; of the large amount of co‐operation which was freely tendered both by members of the Society and by others; so that, the horizon of those who had undertaken the scheme enlarging by degrees, it was finally resolved to publish, not a Snpplement to existing Dictionaries, which it was felt would only imperfectly meet the necessities of the case, and moulcl moreover be encumbered with inconveniences of its own, but an entirely new Dictionary; no patch upon old garments, but a new garment throughout. The little Essay which follows is the substance of two papers which were read before the Society, while the scheme was yet in its infancy. It has been for some time out of print; and is now republished with amendments and additions, and also with such alterations as the altered condition of things may require. I may be allowed, perhaps, to mention here what I mentioned on that former occasion‐namely, that I have thought it right to abstain from employing any portion of those large materials already collected for thc Dictionary, partly as being unwilling even to seem to employ for a private end contributions made for a more public object; but with a further advantage; for I am thus able to show, that it nee'ds no such combined effort of many to make palpable our deficiencies, however it may need this to remove them ; but that any one who is not merely and altogether a guest and stranger in our earlier literature, has in his power to bdng forward abundant evidence even from his single, and it may be slenderly furnished treasure‐house, of the large omissions which it is desirable to

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1857.tb00883.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1857

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1857.tb00884.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1857

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1857.tb00885.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1857

数据来源: WILEY