An Introduction to the English Language and Learning.

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Creator

Benjamin Martin

Title

An Introduction to the English Language and Learning.

Coverage

London

Publisher

W. Owen

Date

1757

Subject

3d ed.

Description

Best known as a popularizer of science, Martin (1705–1782) had a prodigious intellect and remarkable versatility. His New English Dictionary (1749) was among the better pre-Johnson efforts in English lexicography. As for this book, Martin says that “nothing has been so much wanted in our English schools as an Introduction to the English Language and Learning; since common experience but too much evinces how little our youth understand of either.”