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This dictionary has been and still is very instructive and helpful in my learning of the English language. We now live in the information technology and computor era and like everyone else I am influenced emornously. The internet version of dictionary is avalable and undoultedly consumes a large amount of my time doing vocabulary research. Many features including thesausus, flashcard, quote, enclycopedia, are possible to access throuth the internet version but not the other. But I continue enjoying the old way of looking words by physically flipping through pages of my Webster dictionary and the smell of the paper.
The theme is "what will we miss about him when he goes" - He would use every word in the dictionary in one paragraph if he could. He is always referring to his Oxford pocket dictionary.
Dictionario castellano, dictionaire françois, dictionari català de Pere Lacavalleria (Barcelona: Antoni Lacalleria, 1647)
In this dictionary Bierce compiles the canon of human weaknesses, prejudices, absurdities and habits. The subtle, nasty ''definitions'' of words expose the very aspect in them that normal consciousness hypocritically tries to cover up. Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called "the American Swift."
First published as "The Cynic's Word Book" (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.
The American writer Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) had not only a sharp tongue, but also a pointed feather. He was one of the most dazzling figures in 19th-century literary America - the personified provocation and a hateful cynic who left no subject out. No matter whether it was about general, small or great weaknesses of the human race - nothing was sacred to his mockery. He became famous with his "Devil´s Dictionary", a collection of gallant and pointedly spiritual aphorisms.
The size of the eBook is about 180 pages.
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Title: The Devil´s Dictionary
- Edition: ApeBook Classics (ABC, No.
Deciphering hieroglyphics thanks to the Rosetta stone located at the British Museum of London, UK.
May 2015.
Representatives of the Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club distributed nearly 300 brand new dictionaries to 3rd grade students and teachers on Tuesday, October 24 in the IS auditorium.