ON THE STUDY OF WORDS
BY
RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D.
ARCHBISHOP 

'Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the
trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests'
--COLERIDGE 

'Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!'--SHAKESPEARE 

TWENTIETH EDITION revised by 

THE REV.  A.  L.  MAYHEW 

Joint Author of 'The Concise Middle English Dictionary' 

PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH EDITION.