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.