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THE PREFACES TO THE PRECEDING
EDITIONS.
THE following little volume was originally
compiled for the use of a young female
.relative, and is now published with the hope
of being gemirally useful; more especially to
young ladies, whose mode of education precludes
them from an acquaintance with Greek,
and consequently, to whom the etymological
knowledge in Johnson's Dictionary is inaccessible,
- that is, so illr as it relates to the
Greek language, whence our own has derived
almost all its scientific words: the English
letters have therefore been employed instead
of the Greek characters. The thought of
arranging the words !mder distinct heads, as
well as putting them into alphabetical order,
originated from perusing the observations
which Locke makes on the association of