Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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Every writer of along work commits errours, where there appears neither ambiguityto mislead, nor obscurity to confound him; and in a search likethis, many felicities of expression will be casually overlooked, many convenient parallels will be forgotten, and many particularswill admit improvement from a mind utterly unequal to the wholeperformance.
But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature ofthe undertaking, than the negligence of the performer. Thus someexplanations are una...voidably reciprocal or circular, as hind, thefemale of the stag; stag, the male of the hind: sometimes easier wordsare changed into harder, as burial into sepulture or interment, drier into desiccative, dryness into siccity or aridity, fitinto paroxysm; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can neverbe translated into one more easy. But easiness and difficulty aremerely relative, and if the present prevalence of our languageshould invite foreigners to this dictionary, many will be assistedby those words which now seem only to increase or produce obscurity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Every writer of along work commits errours, where there appears neither ambiguityto mislead, nor obscurity to confound him; and in a search likethis, many felicities of expression will be casually overlooked, many convenient parallels will be forgotten, and many particularswill admit improvement from a mind utterly unequal to the wholeperformance.
But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature ofthe undertaking, than the negligence of the performer. Thus someexplanations are una...voidably reciprocal or circular, as hind, thefemale of the stag; stag, the male of the hind: sometimes easier wordsare changed into harder, as burial into sepulture or interment, drier into desiccative, dryness into siccity or aridity, fitinto paroxysm; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can neverbe translated into one more easy. But easiness and difficulty aremerely relative, and if the present prevalence of our languageshould invite foreigners to this dictionary, many will be assistedby those words which now seem only to increase or produce obscurity.
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