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... moft correct , and perhaps the beft , of our profe - writers . Indeed , the juftness of this complaint , as far as I can find , hath never been queftioned ; and yet no effectual method hath hitherto been taken to redress the grievance ...
... moft correct , and perhaps the beft , of our profe - writers . Indeed , the juftness of this complaint , as far as I can find , hath never been queftioned ; and yet no effectual method hath hitherto been taken to redress the grievance ...
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... moft approved authors , often offends against every part of Grammar ? Thus far , I am afraid , the charge is true . Or does it further imply , that our Language is in its nature irregular and capricious ; not hitherto fubject , nor ea ...
... moft approved authors , often offends against every part of Grammar ? Thus far , I am afraid , the charge is true . Or does it further imply , that our Language is in its nature irregular and capricious ; not hitherto fubject , nor ea ...
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... moft able Grammarian of the laft age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Criticism to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common con- ftruction in his own VERNACULAR IDIOM , But perhaps ...
... moft able Grammarian of the laft age , when he came to apply his Learning and his Criticism to an English Author , was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common con- ftruction in his own VERNACULAR IDIOM , But perhaps ...
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... purpose ; they would have some notion of what they were going about , when they fhould enter into the Latin Grammar ; and would hardly be engaged fo many years , as they now are , in that moft irksome and PREFACE . xiii.
... purpose ; they would have some notion of what they were going about , when they fhould enter into the Latin Grammar ; and would hardly be engaged fo many years , as they now are , in that moft irksome and PREFACE . xiii.
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With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. as they now are , in that moft irksome and diffi- cult part of Literature , with so much labor of the memory , and with fo little affiftance of the understanding . A defign fomewhat of this kind gave ...
With Critical Notes Robert Lowth. as they now are , in that moft irksome and diffi- cult part of Literature , with so much labor of the memory , and with fo little affiftance of the understanding . A defign fomewhat of this kind gave ...
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Abfolute Addifon Adjective Adverb alfo alſo anſwer Article Auxiliary Verb becauſe beft Bentley Caſe Compariſon confonant conftruction Conjunction diftinction diftinguiſhed diphthong diſcourſe Dryden Effay English example expreffed expreffion faid fame fecond feems fenfe fhall fignifies firft firſt fitten fome fometimes ftand ftantive ftill ftyle fuch fupplied fyllable Gender governed Grammar hath himſelf Ibid Iliad improperly Indicative Mode Infinitive Mode inftances inftead Irregular Irregular Verbs itſelf laft Language Letter likewife manner Milton miſtake moft moſt muft Neuter Nominative Cafe Noun obferved Objective Cafe paffion Paffive Paft Participle pauſes Phrafe phraſe Plural Number Poffeffive Cafe Pope Pref Prefent Prepofition Pronominal Adjectives Pronoun purpoſe reafon refpect reft Saxon ſeems Sentence Serm Shakspeare ſhould ſome ſpoken Subftantive Subjunctive Subjunctive Mode ſuch Swift tence thee thefe themſelves theſe thing third Perfon Singular thofe thoſe thou tive underſtood uſed Verb Active Verb Neuter vowel whofe words
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