Written virtually single-handedly over a seven-year period by a revered dean of English letters, Johnson's Dictionary first appeared in 1755. A remarkable monument to the vigor and variety of our language and to the genius of its author, it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years and formed the basis for all subsequent English dictionaries. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions and literary examples...

Including many of the principal conceptions of ethics, logic, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, mental pathology, anthropology, biology, neurology, physiology, economics, political and social philosophy, philology, physical science, and education and giving a terminology in English, French, German, and Italian. Contains works by leading authors of the day.Written by many hands and edited by James Mark Baldwin.

This volume contains over 315,000 entries with a special new-words section plus an essay on the growth of English. Also contains 2,400 illustrations and spot maps.

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