TH TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE. PART I BEING A NEW AND ENLARGED DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE compiled from genuine Editions of containing also a very considerable number of significant and Preceded by a COMPENDIOUS ENGLISH GRAMMAR ; with VERBAL DISTINCTIONS, clafsed, and partially illustrated, the whole surrounded by MORALS, MAXIMS, AND PROVERBIAL APHORISMS, BY SAMUEL MAUNDER. NEW EDITION. London, Longman and Co Paternoster Row, THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE, AND Library of Reference. BY SAMUEL MAUNDER. TWELFTH EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED, LONDON: LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONG MANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. M.DCCC.XL. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION. So well received was the first Edition of this Work, that on the appearance of the second, the Proprietor had the gratification of being able to preface it with the following congratulatory sentence :-" With scarcely one solitary advertisement to assist the sale, the whole of a large impression of THE TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE has been purchased by the Public in the space of three months; and at this moment several hundred copies are required of this Edition, to execute orders given for the first." He at the same time justly attributed "the eager demand manifested for it," to "the highly favourable reception given to it by every Reviewer under whose notice it had come." And he further remarked, that "inde pendently of the publicly-expressed opinions of the critical bench, he had been honoured by many private testimonies, every way flattering to his undertaking-some accompanied by ingenious observations and recommendatory hints, and others replete with unqualified praise;" while he assured "his liberal judges and patrons (among whom were several conductors of eminent Schools, whose good opinion was rendered the more valuable by its being the result of arduous professional experience), that he was resolved to pay the most sedulous attention to its improvement, in order to have that claim on their support in future, which is ever awarded to those who diligently strive to maintain it." Since that period the Author has endeavoured to redeem his pledge, by devoting considerable time and attention to the revision of every portion of this volume; and he now, with increased confidence, presumes to hope that his labour has not been thrown away.-After consulting numerous philological and scientific publications, and diligently collating them with the works which had previously been examined, he has been enabled to add upwards of TEN THOUSAND "useful, significant, and wellauthorized words" (with definitions as perspicuous as their indispensable conciseness would admit of) to the " ENLARGED ENGLISH DICTION ARY" in Part I.; thereby rendering it the most copious Vocabulary of the English language extant-not merely in comparison with others of a corresponding size, but with any Dictionary of six times its bulk and price. How he has performed his task, others must determine;—for him to say more on the subject might be deemed offensive egotism ;-to say |