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.”