This work was Miss Pinkerton's present to departing students, though Becky Sharp threw her copy into the garden as her coach drove off.  
This work was Miss Pinkerton's present to departing students, though Becky Sharp threw her copy into the garden as her coach drove off.  Upon its publication, Philip Stanhope wrote two letters in the World in condemnation of it. The author released five editions in his lifetime, though none contain material from further back than the works of Sidney, holding that "from the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of elegance and use."  Though it suffered from a shortage of etymological knowledge at the time, FTP, what 1755 creation of Samuel Johnson set the early standard for lexicography?
This work was Miss Pinkerton's present to departing students, though Becky Sharp threw her copy into the garden as her coach drove off.  
A Dictionary of the English Language