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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE, containing the Pronunciation, Etymology,
and Explanation of all Words authorized by Eminent
Writers. By ALEXANDER REID, LL.D., late Head
Master of the Edinburgh Institution.

This Work is adapted to the present state of the English language and the improved methods of teaching. While the Alphabetical arrangement is preserved, the Words are also grouped in such a manner as to show their Etymological affinity; and after the first Word of each group is given the Root from which they are derived. These Roots are afterwards arranged into a Vocabulary. At the end is an Accented List of Classical and Scriptural Proper Names.

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CONTENTS.

PART I.-ON STYLE.

II. THE STRUCTURE OF THEMES.

III. VERSIFICATION.

APPENDICES:-Correction of the Press; and Vocabulary of Rhetorical Terms.

PREFACE.

THIS Book is intended as a sequel to the ordinary Text-Books on English Grammar and Analysis. It takes up the subject where analysis leaves it; and as its method is synthetical throughout, its processes form the natural and necessary complement to those of analysis.

The process of grammatical Synthesis which forms the fundamental peculiarity of the work (vide § 55, et seq.), will be found to differ widely from the so-called synthesis hitherto in use. This latter process, which is little else than the conversion of a series of similar simple sentences into one complex or compound sentence, corresponds rather with what in the following pages is termed Contraction (§ 31),—an exercise which, however useful incidentally, neither requires great skill, nor conduces to much mental exertion. This work, on the contrary, aims at making the building up of sentences by Synthesis, as exact and useful a discipline as the breaking down of sentences by Analysis is now admitted to be. Accordingly, in the following exercises,especially will this be noticed in those on complex and compound sentences, each element in the data has a specific function to perform; so that if the sentence, constructed according to the