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Ameri American Antiquarian Society American Economic Association Amerikanische Antiquarian Society B. G. Teubner Bailey Baldwin Bericht Berlin BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMICS Bilder Blount book reviews Boston Public Library Buchhandlung Bulletin calendar century collection copy current literature den Vereinigten Staaten deutsche Deutschland Deutschtum diary Duncker & Humblot E. S. Mittler editions English Dictionary field Fischer French German Geschichte historian important interest issued Jahrhunderte Jena John John Kersey Johnson Journal of Political Landwirtschaft language Leben Leipzig letters liche manuscripts material neue nische nordamerikanischen orderly books papers Pavier Political Economy printed Professor published quartos rika Robert Cawdrey Sammlung schaft sche schen Sohn Staaten von Amerika Staaten von Nord Staaten von Nordamerika Steiger Studien Stuttgart Table Alphabeticall Thomas tion tionary United Vereinigten Staa Vereinigten Staaten Vereinigten Staaten von Vereins Verlag viii volume Welt Weltausstellung in Chicago Wien writings York Zürich
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Page 27 - English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greeke, Latine, or French, &c., with the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit & helpe of ladies, gentlewomen, or any other unskilfull persons, whereby they may the more easilie and better understand many hard English wordes, which they shall heare or read in scriptures, sermons, or elsewhere, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves.
Page 28 - This type, in which common words like see, do, pin, brave, good, have no place, was universal in the 17th century, and nearly so till 1721. It survives even now sporadically, while the principle in it still causes in many instances the omission of self-evident derivative and compound words. We do not record the words dancing pump, dress shirt, collar button. Early lexicographers did not forbear, however, to include many difficult terms which prove to have been very rare. Many words in Blount or Johnson...
Page 33 - ... schollers, clarkes, merchants, — as also strangers of any nation, to the understanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our Language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection in the English Tongue, both in reading, speaking, and writing.
Page 27 - A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usual English wordes...
Page 77 - January, 1910, inclusive; ed. by the Faculty of the Department of political economy of the University of Chicago.
Page 43 - For as to the pretence of fixing a standard to the purity and perfection of any language, while the state of the people remains unchanged and unmix'd with others, is utterly vain and impertinent, because no language as depending on arbitrary use and custom, can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.
Page 30 - An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue...
Page 100 - A Preliminary Bibliography of German Books on the United States Since 1880.
Page 30 - Records and Processes at Law; and the Etymology and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women and Remarkable Places in Great Britain: also the Dialects of our Different Counties. Containing many Thousand Words more than . . . any English Dictionary before extant.
Page 104 - Die volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Südens der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika von 1860 bis 1900.