 | 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
...who lay it down thus : ' In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be fully adopted ; that is to say, we shall endeavour to show...light the common thread which unites all together.' Moreover, they design to produce evidence of this linguistic growth, change, and decay, by a system... | |
 | 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
...who lay it down thus : ' In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be fully adopted ; that is to say, we shall endeavour to show...light the common thread which unites all together.' Moreover, they design to produce evidence of this linguistic growth, change, and decay, by a system... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...individual words the historical principle will be fully adopted ; that is to say, \ve shall endeavor to show more clearly and fully than has hitherto been...light the common thread which unites all together.' Moreover, they design to produce evidence of this linguistic growth, change, and decay, by a system... | |
 | Jennifer Pearson - 1998 - 268 páginas
...it should contain every word occurring in the literature of the language it professes to illustrate. IV. In the treatment of individual words, the historical principle will be uniformly adopted. Johnson had begun his task of compiling a dictionary by reading the English writers which he deemed... | |
 | Lynda Mugglestone - 2000 - 306 páginas
...contain every word occurring in the literature of the language it professes to illustrate. Principle IV: In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be uniformly adopted. Both principles do not seem to be unreasonable, especially if one takes into account the historical... | |
 | Francisco Fernández - 2001 - 396 páginas
...should contain every word occurring in the literature of the language it professes to illustrate. (ii) In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be uniformly adopted. (Historical Introduction, viii). Con el primero se subrayaba la importancia de todos y cada uno de... | |
 | R. R. K. Hartmann - 2003 - 504 páginas
...and instead a more ambitious scheme of producing a completely new English dictionary was proposed: In the treatment of individual words the historical...adopted: that is to say. we shall endeavour to show ... the development of the sense or various senses of each word from its etymology and from each other.... | |
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In the treatment of individual words the historical principle will be fully adopted ; that is to say, we shall endeavour to show more clearly and fully than has hitherto been done, or even attempted, the development of the sense, or various senses, of... 