Authority Cited: Martin
Author name and dates: Benjamin Martin (1704-1782)
BKG Bio-tweet: Self-taught competent lexicographer; lecturer on science; made scientific instruments, spectacles; pub. Martin’s Magazine
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ uses three of Martin's definitions under the letter "C" of the 1755 Dict. No additional Martin cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Benjamin Martin (1704-1782)
BKG Bio-tweet: Self-taught competent lexicographer; lecturer on science; made scientific instruments, spectacles; pub. Martin’s Magazine
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ uses three of Martin's definitions under the letter "C" of the 1755 Dict. No additional Martin cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- [Lingua Britannica reformata: or, a new English dictionary, under the following titles, viz. I. Universal; ... II. Etymological; ... III. Orthograihical; ... IV. Orthoepical; ... V. Diacritical; ... VI. Philological; ... VII. Mathematical; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is prefix'd, an introduction, containing a physico-grammatical essay on the propriety and rationale of the English tongue, deduced from a general idea of the nature and necessity of Speech for Human Society, a particular view of the genius and necessity of the original Mother Tongues, the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Tuetonic; with their respective idioms, the Italian, French, Spanish, Saxon, and German, so far as they have relation to the English tongue and have contributed to its composition. By Benj. Martin.] 1749, London: printed for J. Hodges; S. Austen; J. Newbery; J. Ward; R. Raikes, at Gloucester; J. Leake, and W. Frederick, at Bath; and B. Collins, at Salisbury; camera obscura; cessionary; clatter;
- [BKG Note: Prof. Beth Rapp Young, U. of Central Florida, points out that Johnson quotes Pope in his entry for candid (both 1755 and 1773): "A candid judge will read each piece of wit, With the same spirit that its author writ." However, Pope's Essay on Criticism says "A perfect judge . . ." and Johnson uses this same quotation with "perfect" in entries for spirit and judge. Young has found no Pope edition with candid, but found wording with candid in Benjamin Martin's compilation Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and Sciences, 1737, London: Printed by S. Idle for John Noon, at the White Hart, near Mercers Chapel, in Cheapside. Martin's source has not been traced.]
- Martin (no work cited);