But the first dictionary considered anything like reliable was Samuel Johnson's " Dictionary of the English Language" , published in 1755, over 150 years after Cawdrey's.
There is still much truth in Dr Samuel Johnson's observation, 'The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction'.
The college president was Samuel Johnson, a minister in the Anglican Church, who taught the first- year students Greek and Latin using religious and philosophical texts alongside rhetoric, oratory, and logic.