The Dictionary of Terms and Phrases is intended to bring together such words, expressions, quotations, etc., English or other, as are among the most uncommon in current literature, and require, for the ordinary reader, explanations, for the want of which the meaning of a sentence or a paragraph, even the drift of an argument, s often missed; explanations, moreover, not to be obtained without reference to, and perhaps tedious search among, a large and varied ...
