| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 600 páginas
...January 7tb, 1858, resolved that instead of a supplement to the standard English English dictionaries, a New Dictionary of the English Language should be prepared under the authority of the Society. Two committees were appointed : one literary and historical, consisting of the then Dean of... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 596 páginas
...meeting on January 7th, 1858, resolved that instead of a supplement to the standard English dictionaries, a New Dictionary of the English Language should be prepared under the authority of the Society. Two committees were appointed : one literary and historical, consisting of the then Dean of... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...meeting on January 7th, 1858, resolved that instead of a supplement to the standard English dictionaries, a New Dictionary of the English Language should be prepared under the authority of the Society. Two committees were appointed : one literary and historical, consisting of the then Dean of... | |
| Walter William Skeat - 1896 - 586 páginas
...was resolved — 'that, instead of the Supplement to the standard English Dictionaries, then in the course of preparation by the Society's Unregistered...the authority of the Philological Society.' The work was placed in the hands of two Committees, the one, Literary and Historical, consisting of the Very... | |
| Walter William Skeat - 1896 - 532 páginas
...standard English Dictionaries, then in the course of preparation by the Society's Unregistered \Vords Committee, a New Dictionary of the English Language...the authority of the Philological Society.' The work was placed in the hands of two Committees, the one, Literary and Historical, consisting of the Very... | |
| Walter William Skeat - 1896 - 532 páginas
...was resolved — 'that, instead of the Supplement to the standard English Dictionaries, then in the course of preparation by the Society's Unregistered...Committee, a New Dictionary of the English Language should Jbe prepared under the authority of the Philological Society.' The work was placed in the hands of... | |
| 1911 - 328 páginas
...January 7, 1858, the society resolved that, instead of the supplement now in course of preparation a new Dictionary of the English Language should be...prepared under the authority of the Philological Society ; that the work should be placed in the hands of two committees, the one literary and historical, consisting... | |
| Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) - 1924 - 572 páginas
...Supplement to the Standard English Dictionaries now in course of preparation by the order of the Society, a New Dictionary of the English Language should be...under the Authority of the Philological Society." These resolutions bring out the fact that the birth of the Oxford Dictionary (' OED') in 1858 was an... | |
| Tony Crowley - 1996 - 228 páginas
...achieved successfully by means of a supplement to existing dictionaries and so it was declared that 'a New Dictionary of the English language should be...prepared under the authority of the Philological Society' (Proposal 1858: 8). The Proposal described it as a 'national project', and set out five points which... | |
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