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Page 206
... Language which we speak ; in oppofition to words and phrafes that are imported from other Languages , or that are obfolete , or new coined , or used without proper autho- rity . Propriety is the felection of fuch words in the Language ...
... Language which we speak ; in oppofition to words and phrafes that are imported from other Languages , or that are obfolete , or new coined , or used without proper autho- rity . Propriety is the felection of fuch words in the Language ...
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... language by the moft masterly hands ( as we already have fome ) , among other reafons , for this , that ingenious and inquifitive peo- ple , who have the misfortune not to be well acquainted with the learned tongues , may have fome ...
... language by the moft masterly hands ( as we already have fome ) , among other reafons , for this , that ingenious and inquifitive peo- ple , who have the misfortune not to be well acquainted with the learned tongues , may have fome ...
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... language every lover of that language ought to study and understand , if he would write , or even speak it , with purity and precifion . Let my countrymen too reflect , that in studying a work upon this fubject , they are not only ...
... language every lover of that language ought to study and understand , if he would write , or even speak it , with purity and precifion . Let my countrymen too reflect , that in studying a work upon this fubject , they are not only ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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