“
terms or phrases, as having never before needed them. first obliged them to adopt the Parliamentary vocabulary of England;
and other new circumstances called for corresponding new words; until by the number of these adopted, & by the analogies for
adoption which they have legitimated, I think we may say with truth that a Dictionnaire Neologique of these would be half
as large as the dictionary of the Academy; & that at this time it is the language in which every shade of idea, distinctly
percieved by the mind, may be more exactly expressed, than in any language at this day spoken by man. yet I have no hesitation
in saying that the English language is founded on a broader base, native & adopted, and capable, with the like freedom of
employing it’s materials, of becoming superior to that in copiousness & euphony. not indeed by holding fast to Johnson’s Dictionary:
not by raising a hue and cry against every word he has not licensed: but by encouraging & welcoming new compositions of it’s
elements . . .
”
For the Dictionary of the Academy, see no. 4823 and for Johnson’s Dictionary, see no. 4874.
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96
Dictionnaire
Fr. et
Angl. de Chambaud et Robinet.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 164, no. 116, Dictionnaire Fr. Eng. de Chambaud et Robinet, 2 v 4to.
CHAMBAUD,
Louis.
Nouveau Dictionnaire
François-
Anglois, et
Anglois-
François. Contenant la Signification et les Differens Usages des Mots . . . Tome Premier. Contenant le
François devant l’
Anglois. [Vol. II. Containing the
English before the
French.] De Mr. Louis Chambaud; Corrigé & considérablement augmenté par lui & Par Mr. J. B. Robinet.
À
Paris: chez
C. Panckoucke,
Amsterdam et
Leipzig chez
Arkstée et
Merkus, et à
Rotterdam chez
H. Beman. Libraires.
mdcclxxvi
. Avec double Privilége. [1776.]
PC2640 .A2 C5
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. 376 and 310 leaves (including 1 blank); the title for Volume II is entirely in
English; the text in each volume in triple columns, preceded by a preface in long lines, in
French and
English respectively.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
27.0.
Louis Chambaud, d. 1776, French lexicographer.
Jean Baptiste René Robinet, 1735-1820, French scholar, held the position of
censeur royal.
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Dictionnaire de poche par Catineau.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 164, no. 27, as above.
CATINEAU-LAROCHE,
Pierre Marie Sébastien.
Nouveau Dictionnaire de Poche de la Langue
Française, avec la Prononciation, composé sur le Système Orthographique de Voltaire, Par P. Catineau . . .
A
Paris: chez
Catineau, An
X. (
1802.).
First Edition. 12mo. 286 leaves. A copy of the first edition was not available. A copy of the reprint of 1807 (the third edition,
with the same collation) is in the Library of Congress.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in Graesse.
Jefferson bought his copy from
Reibelt of Baltimore on February 9, 1805, price $
1.90. It is included in the various lists of books bought from Reibelt made by Jefferson at that time, including the list of March 7, with a letter to Reibelt and the money for his purchases.
Pierre Marie Sébastien Catineau-Laroche, 1772-1828, French author and lexicographer, left Paris for St. Domingue in 1799 and set up a printing press which he lost
by fire in 1804.
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