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"Dr. Webster has entered more deeply into etymological researches, and with greater success than any of his predecessors in the same vocation. . Indeed, on this ground he stands not only unrivalled, but alone."- N. Amer. Review. [Said of earlier edition.] "The etymological part surpasses anything that has been done for the English language by any earlier laborers in the same field."— Hon. George Bancroft, the Historian. "In the exhibition of the Etymology of the Language, it is superior to any other Dictionary."President Woolsey, of Yale College, Pres. Keller, and others. "The etymological department throws new and striking light on the history of language." The late President Day of Yule College, President Bates, late of Middlebury College, and eleven Professors in those Institutions. "A work of extraordinary merit and value. On the great head of Etymology, I know nothing to supply its place."- Hon. Daniel Webster. Unquestionably the very best Dictionary of our language extant. Its great accuracy in the def. nition and derivation of words gives it an authority that no other work on the subject possesses. It is constantly cited and relied on in our Courts of justice, in our legislative bodies, and in public discussions, as entirely conclusive."- Hon. John C. Spencer. "In the department of Etymology- the only part of a lexicon requiring great labor and profound erudition-he is, by common confession of scholars, without a rival either in this country or in Europe." John G. Saxe. "It was my happy fortune to be a member of the family of Dr. C. F. A. Mahn, in Berlin, while he was engaged in preparing the etymological work in the revised edition. I was a witness of the unwearied care with which he devoted himself to that task, and knowing, as I did, his pre-eminent qualifications for it, I should have needed no other assurance of the supreme value of his work, which, as presented in the etymology of Webster's Dictionary, I consider the best lexicographical authority extant, in that department of our language."- Edirard S. Joynes, Professor of Modern Languages and English Philology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., May 3, 1872. ETYMOLOGY. "In English, all the older authorities like Richardson and Webster (in his earlier editions) are simply to be thrown away as rubbish, or worse; nor is the latest Worcester very much better; whatever of good there may be in it, it is on the whole untrustworthy, liable to mislead as often as it guides aright. In the last edition of Webster, however, is included the best body of brier English etymology by DR. 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