The new spelling dictionary teaching to write and pronounce the English tongue with ease and propriety, In which each Word is accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; the Part of Speech is properly distinguished, and The various Significations are ranged in one Line; With a list of proper names of men and women. The whole compiled and digested in a manner entirely new, to make it a complete pocket companion for those Who read Milton, Pope, Addison, Shakespeare, Tillotson and Locke, or other English Authors of Repute in Prose or Verse: And in particular to assist young People, Artificers, Tradesmen and Foreigners, desirous to understand what they speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, a grammatical introduction to the English Tongue. By the Rev. Joh Entick, A. M. Editor of Littleton's Latin and English Dictionary and Schrevelius's Greek Lexicon. Carefully revised and corrected; to which with the former Additions, is now first subjoined, chiefly extracted from Doctor Ash's large octavo Dictionary-A Compendious Historical Dictionary of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses, Heroes and Heroines, &c
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, and may be had of the principal booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland
1776, 1776
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Edition: | A new edition, carefully revised and corrected |
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T61473. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (470,[2]p) 12° |