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5430	Johnson, Samuel	Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language			.txt	text/plain	9668	298	50	of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated As language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary we have few Latin words, among the terms of domestick use, which upon greater things, have thought little on sounds and derivations; observe whether the Latin word be pure or barbarous, or the French But to COLLECT the WORDS of our language was a task of my predecessors, by inserting great numbers of compounded words, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily considered words beyond their popular use, be thought only the jargon The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their each word, and ranged according to the time of their authours. mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to	./cache/5430.txt	./txt/5430.txt