Review of a Journal of Eight Days Journey from Ports-

mouth to Kingston upon Thames, &c.

Reply to a Paper in the Gazetteer

Page

- 333

349

Review of an Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope 357

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Committee for

cloathing French Prisoners of War

-

368

- 371

On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers

Considerations on the Plans for the Construction of

Black Friars Bridge

- 375

Some Thoughts on Agriculture, Ancient and Modern - 384

Further Thoughts on Agriculture

The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe

APPENDIX.

Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth,

&c.

Notes

- 391

- 398

THE

PLAN

OF AN

ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

To the Right Honourable PHILIP DORMER,
Earl of CHESTERFIELD,

One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

MY LORD,

WHEN first I undertook to write an English Dictionary, I had no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy, nor prospect of any other advantage than the price of my labour. I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind, as the proper toil of artless industry; a task that requires neither the light of learning, nor the activity of genius, but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of bearing burthens with dull patience, and beating the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution.