THE HISTORY OF _TOM JONES_, A FOUNDLING. * * * * * In SIX VOLUMES. * * * * * By HENRY FIELDING, Esq. * * * * * ----_Mores hominum multorum vidit_---- * * * * * _L O N D O N:_ Printed for A. MILLAR, over-against _Catharine-street_ in the _Strand_. MDCCXLIX. Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec. WOLFE AN ELEGY WROTE IN A Country Church Yard. * * * * * _LONDON:_ Printed for R. DODSLEY in _Pall-mall_; And sold by M. COOPER in _Pater-noster-Row_. 1751. [Price Six-pence.] Reduced Leaf in original, 7.37 × 9.81 inches I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the Continent. JOHNSON A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, AND ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, A. M. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. Cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti: Audebit quæcunque parum splendoris habebunt, Et sine pondere erunt, et honore indigna serentur. Verba movere loco; quamvis invita recedant, Et versentur adhuc intra penetralia Vestæ: Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet, atque Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum, Quæ priscis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis, Nunc situs informis premit et deserta vetustas. HOR.