Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's DictionaryFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 17 okt 2006 - 304 pagina's By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. |
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