United Kingdom, Lexicographer 1704 – February, 9, 1782.
Benjamin Martin (1704- February 9, 1782) was a lexicographer who compiled one of the early English dictionaries, the Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749). He also was a lecturer on science and maker of scientific instruments.
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.
I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
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