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... learned languages are to their pristine purity restored , viz . Greek ( without which a man may be ashamed to account himself a scholar ) Hebrew , Arabick , Chaldaean and Latine . Printing likewise is now in use , so elegant , and so ...
... learned languages are to their pristine purity restored , viz . Greek ( without which a man may be ashamed to account himself a scholar ) Hebrew , Arabick , Chaldaean and Latine . Printing likewise is now in use , so elegant , and so ...
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. learned Languages , fit only for learned Men to meddle with and teach ; English is the language of the illiterate Vulgar , though yet we see the policy of some of our neighbours hath not thought it beneath the ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. learned Languages , fit only for learned Men to meddle with and teach ; English is the language of the illiterate Vulgar , though yet we see the policy of some of our neighbours hath not thought it beneath the ...
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... learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country . I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn ; upon the learned judges to interpose the purity of their ermine , to save us from this pollu ...
... learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country . I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn ; upon the learned judges to interpose the purity of their ermine , to save us from this pollu ...
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