William Perry

A General Dictionary of the English Language; to Which is Prefixed, a Comprehensive Grammar. by William Perry, ... Embellished with a Portrait of the Au

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT087432"An adaptation of 'The royal standard English dictionary', but without vowel-length indicated, and briefer meanings" (Alston). London: printed for John Stockdale, 1795. [360]p.; 8 Contributor Bio:  Perry, William Dr. William G. Perry received his Ph. D. and Masters in Business Education from the University of North Dakota, and his B. A. in Business Administration and Business Education from the University of South Florida. Dr. Perry teaches at Western Carolina University and has received numerous teaching awards and recognitions during his 18 year tenure there, including the Board of Governor's Innovative Teaching Award, and a Global Teaching Excellence Award. He is also very active in the private sector as a consultant for academic instruction, teaching seminars across the country. He has written over two dozen papers and publications, and is the editor of the Dictionary of U. S. Intelligence and of the book Why Secret Intelligence Fails.