![]() The reader will perceive that the plates are, many of Was so obliging as to send me the hint, which I thankfully Quarter area, requires to be multiplied by 4. Which it evidently does, and therefore the product of the Such a division made the area only a quarter of the whole, Given area into half the length and width, for the sake ofĮase, it did not occur to me at the time of writing it, that Should be multiplied by 4 for, in proposing to divide the ![]() Product to itself only, for the whole sum of the area, which In page 267, on measuring : where it is directed to add the It is also requested, that the reader will notice an error Werejudged of more consequence to the work. The subject of geometrical and perspective lines, which Of the articles, which are referred to the Supplement, haveīeen omitted to give place to a more particular attention to Mon way, were or were not workable by a good meĪnd it may be proper to inform the reader, that a few Without consulting whether the particulars out of the com With my pencil, on a baseless fabric, as some have done, They appear in the engravings for I have not figured away. That all the designs are capable of being finished exacly as The work, andthat many things are capable of being improvĮd by the ingenious workmen of both branches, when theyĬome to put them into execution. I have no doubt, however, of my own imperfections in They will perceive it surviving, and themselves hushed into Will fall upon their own heads, with double force, when Sufficient encouragement granted by the dispassionate,Ĭandid, and judicious of both branches, to bring it to aĬonclusion and the increasing mortification of the former ![]() Prejudice, and melevolence of some, yet there has been Received it that it may appear to their neighbours that theyĪre no way indebted to such works for their knowledge Īnd that themselves are the most proper persons to haveīut, though we have thus laboured under the ignorance, Gained some smattering knowledge, set up for critics, andĪre the most ready to snap at the hand by whom they have Of certain persons belonging to them, who, when they have Labour (particularly it is so with those that appear periodiĬally before completed, as this has done) under the disĪdvantage arising from the gross ignorance and invidiousness It is, however, the fate of such performances, publishedįor the use of one or two mechanical branches only, to Insertion ofseveral words in the subsequent work. The sensible and candid of both branches, will consider the With already but rather approve of his strict attention inĭirecting entire strangers. Into his descriptive picture, those which we are familiar We are seldom offended with the geographer, for inserting Whenwe view the maps ofwell-known places and roads, With, as a part of their mother tongue, before it made its Put before nouns, to express their relation or circumstances :Īnd there are thousands ofother words in that justly celebratĮd performance, that the most illiterate were acquainted In his immortal Dictionary, that a, an, and the, are articles ![]() That are springing up before them and for foreigners too, On the contrary, they wisely think for the rising generation Which are, therefore, not to be introduced into their work. The public are supposed already to be acquainted with, and Writers who never make an estimate of those words that Judging it safest to follow the example of all other dictionary Words of both branches, I thought myself bound to attendĪs minutely to every term, as their nature would admit of, In compiling a dictionary, professedly to illustrate all the ![]()
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