Excerpt from English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions, Designed as a Companion for the Study, and as a Text-Book for the Use of Schools After being for eighteen years before the public, during which time it has been received with wide and constantly in creasing favor, this work has now been carefully revised by the original author, with the addition of more than 50 new dissertations and upward of 660 new synonyms, bringing the total number of synonyms treated up to more than with an increase of 154 pages in the size of the volume. At numerous points within the paragraphs originally given new discriminations have been inserted or those already exist ing newly stated. The principle, which has been found so help ful, of referring all discriminations in every group to some fixed point as a standard has been steadily maintained through out this revision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.