Authority Cited: South
Author name and dates: Robert South (1634-1716)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; traveled in Europe during Cromwell; attacked Independents, Presbyterians; rationalized oath to W&M
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 1078 South cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1136 cites in Dict. vol.2. A few (eleven) additions of South cites in the 1773 Dict. were identified and are indicated in bold italic below. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), Twelve Sermons (1694) vol. II, marked by SJ, is in the Lichfield Cathedral Library.]
Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions. by Robert South, D.D., Six of them Never Before Printed, 1692, London: Printed by J.H. for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard; abhorrence (p.638); . . . disacknowledge (p.120, a new headword in the 1773 Dict., and not used in another quotation) . . . wretchedly (p.624).
Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions. by Robert South, D.D., The Second Volume, Never Before Printed, 1694, London: Printed by J.H. for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard.; abide (p.469); . . . rely [BKG Note: Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia, notes a misattribution to Tillotson in the 1773 Dict.] wrote (p.533); yearn (p.78); yet (p.237).
Author name and dates: Robert South (1634-1716)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; traveled in Europe during Cromwell; attacked Independents, Presbyterians; rationalized oath to W&M
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 1078 South cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1136 cites in Dict. vol.2. A few (eleven) additions of South cites in the 1773 Dict. were identified and are indicated in bold italic below. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (204), Twelve Sermons (1694) vol. II, marked by SJ, is in the Lichfield Cathedral Library.]
Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions. by Robert South, D.D., Six of them Never Before Printed, 1692, London: Printed by J.H. for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard; abhorrence (p.638); . . . disacknowledge (p.120, a new headword in the 1773 Dict., and not used in another quotation) . . . wretchedly (p.624).
Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions. by Robert South, D.D., The Second Volume, Never Before Printed, 1694, London: Printed by J.H. for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard.; abide (p.469); . . . rely [BKG Note: Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia, notes a misattribution to Tillotson in the 1773 Dict.] wrote (p.533); yearn (p.78); yet (p.237).
- South (no work cited); cast; cause; diocesan; dose; duel (same quote as flux in 1755 Dict.); endurance; forage; run, v.a; spirit; widely; [BKG Note: some of these additions in the 1773 Dict. may be quotations used in the 1755 Dict. All are likely from the titles above.]