ISBN: E100000005430 出版年:2004 页码: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Project Gutenberg
Erudite! Doesn't do this tome justice, nor does it adequately describe Sam Johnson. Certainly worth the read if you have any interest in where our common Tongue came from, and how the 17th century folks lived it and intellectuals described it.
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This was downloaded for nothing, so cannot complain. The books that are available for free download are not up to date or best sellers, but there are some good classics and books of interest. Worth looking through for what's on offer !
A bit of a peculiar dictionary this. Couldn't quite work out what it was all about. Still no doubt somebody can find a use for it.
The defenitions are a bit longwinded. Sometimes all you need is a basic meaning of a word.
I love the book and it was very informative and encourage. I would love to talk to Oprah
This is your typical dictionary. Free, makes it great, reading the dictionary, yes reading not just looking up words. Is enjoyable to for me. Having it on my devices, helps to pass the time while waiting for drs. kids, read in bed... anywhere.
I was disappointed .thought it was a dictionary but it was not. Bummer!!!
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Dr. Johnson is a fantastic and original thinker, and he is a master crafsman of balanced, thought-provoking sentences. The first paragraph of the preface is noteworthy.
Here, from the author of the first complete dictionary of the English language, you will find the traditional, conservative, common-sense view of language change. Johnson says, that we should "retard what we cannot repel" and "make some struggles for our language."
Good to have installed in the Kindle and ready to use on demand but better research would have provided what I needed.
Dr Johnson did more than any other individual to standardise the English language in the form in which we now use it - spelling, derivations, grammar, idiom and all, and he did it through his Dictionary. The Preface is readable, not too long and illustrates very well the principles on which he worked. His own opinions come through strongly, but he recognised clearly that language is ultimately in the hands not of lexicographers but of those who use it, and ultimately even the most pedantic of scholars have to bow to common usage once established. It's a good and useful read for anyone interested in the history of the English language, which even in Johnson's day had acquired a global reach though not yet the predominance it would attain (replacing French) by 1900.
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