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Johnson's dictionary and the language of learning

Print Book, English, ©1986
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1986
Dictionary
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807817131, 0807817139
13270590
Introduction: the Dictionary as literature
Johnson's book
The audience of the Dictionary
The meaning of the Dictionary
The genre of Johnson's Dictionary
The field of knowledge in Johnson's Dictionary
Part I: Knowledge
The shape of knowledge
The acquisition and possession of knowledge
Supreme knowledge
Part II: Ignorance
Declarations and descriptions of ignorance
Specific points of ignorance
Pseudodoxia
Part III: Truth
The rhetoric of truth
Conviction
Probability and opinion
Part IV: Mind
Soul
The order of the mental faculties
Part V: Education
Learning
Teachers and pupils
Extracurricular activities
Religion and morality
Part VI: Language
A world of words
The growth and reformation of English
Part VII: The arts of writing, reading and speaking
Writing
Reading
Speech
Part VIII: Arts and sciences
Critics and criticism
Poetry and poets
The fine arts
The professions of the gown
Part IX: Fundamentals
Faith, hope, and charity
God and providence
Freedom
Death and judgment
Part X: Happiness
Human life
Human wishes
Work
Includes indexes