Excerpt from American Glossary, Vol. 1: Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain; Americanisms Upon Historical Principles
AN old author has said that A definition, like the barke with the tree, is to be neither straiter nor larger than the thing defined; and, so it comprehend all, the shorter it is the better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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