Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language. So far have I been from any care to I look with pleasure on my book, grace my pages with modern however defective, and deliver it to decorations, that I have studiously the world with the spirit of a man that endeavoured to collect examples and has endeavoured well. authorities from the writers before the restoration In both excerpts, the word endeavour means to O probe, investigate, or examine. make an effort or attempt, or to try. O judge harshly or criticize. O overlook, ignore, or neglect.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

1 - a

2 - a

3 - c

4 - b

5 - d

plagiarism can get you expelled from your course, and college, or university. plagiarism can result in legal action like fines and penalties etc.