Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Work of Samuel Johnson, With Murphy's Essay, Vol. 5 of 6
When first I undertook to write an english diction ary, I had 'no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy, nor prospect of any other advantage than the price of my labour. I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as'the proper toil of artless in dustry; atask that requires neither the light of learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully per formed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience, and beating the track of the alphabet With sluggish resolution.
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