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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524954" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Masterpiece</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">June 1746 deeply dissatisfied <br>with the dictionaries of the period<br>London booksellers contracted </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dr Samuel Johnson to write<br>'A Dictionary of the English Language'<br>15 April 1755 finally published.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Johnson took nine years to create<br>an authoritative dictionary of the English language<br>could finish in three years he claimed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Preposterous Académie Française employed; <br>in comparison over forty learned scholars <br>spending needing forty years to complete; </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>its dictionary in the French language.<br>Forty Frenchmen times forty years <br>is not nine but 1600 years to complete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Miracle miracle Johnson 1591 years defeats. <br>For what princely sum did Johnson contract <br>with William Strahan and printer associates; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a preeminent Dictionary in English to complete? <br>18 June 1746 in historic morning was signed<br>a project prestigious contact worth 1,500 guineas? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This sum of 1,500 guineas is <br>in pounds £1,575 equivalent <br>in 2012 to about £230,000. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A consortium of London's most <br>successful printers including Robert <br>Dodsley, Thomas Longman, would</div><div style="margin:10px 0">finance a dictionary none could afford; <br>on such scale to undertake alone, thus was <br>contracted to be; a meticulous feat of legend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas said 'the world contemplated <br>with wonder so stupendous a work achieved <br>by one man, while other countries </div><div style="margin:10px 0">had thought such undertakings <br>fit only for whole academies'.' <br>OED took writers 70 years to complete. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Johnson's Dictionary unlike all proto-dictionaries; <br>earlier printed painstaking care exhibited <br>an exact completeness in illustrations definitions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon bold title page was proud acknowledged; <br>Oxford had awarded Johnson a Master of Arts <br>degree in anticipation of so great an achievement. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This titanic marvel an unprecedented; <br>dictionary contained pages 18 inches <br>46 cm tall nearly 20 inches 50 cm wide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Paper chosen was of the finest; <br>quality available running to a cost <br>of near £1,600 more than sum paid; </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>to Johnson to write what he pronounced <br>to be 'Vasta mole superbus' 'Proud <br>in its great bulk' a marvelous achievement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No book this size except a few special editions; <br>of the Bible had even been set to type thus <br>no single bookseller could this book hope to print.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With pride Dr Samuel Johnson proclaims his; <br>'A Dictionary of the English Language' as words <br>deduced from their originals illustrated; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in their different significations by examples; <br>from the best writers to which he had prefixed<br>an English Grammar a history of the language. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Revolutionary genius Johnson's important; <br>innovation was to illustrate the meanings <br>of words with famous English literary quotations; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">approximately 114,000 by the best writers; <br>Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden were authors <br>by Johnson most frequently included cited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The colossal work each copy cost £4/10/- equivalent; <br>to £675 in 2005, a small fortune, so exorbitant an amount, <br>that five editions and thirty years later only copies 6,000; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">had been sold averaging 200 books a year for thirty years.<br>Publication universal appreciation a standing ovation heralds <br>honours innovative content and Johnson's efforts to create it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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London booksellers contracted 

Dr Samuel Johnson to write
'A Dictionary of the English Language'
15 April 1755 finally published.

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