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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - II

The first word-book to embody the ideals of the age was Nathaniel Bailey's Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, originally published in 1721 and then, in a beautiful volume with illustrations by Flaxman in 1731. This edition was the basis of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1755; through Johnson, it influenced all subsequent lexicographical practice. The position of dictionary pioneer, commonly granted to Johnson or Noah Webster, belongs in reality to one of the few geniuses lexicography ever produced: Nathaniel Bailey. Johnson extended Bailey's technique and also revised Bailey's crude etymologies on the basis of francis Juntus's book. Most Englishmen used the word dictionary as a mere synonym for Jonhson's Dictionary. Being regarded as the ideal word-book, it continued in common use until 1900.

The publication of Johnson's dictionary was separated from the Flaxman edition of Bailey's dictionary by

A) 4 years 

B) 10 years

C)  125 years                     

D) 34 years