...obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expreflions. The great peft of fpeech is frequency of tranflation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomething of its native idiom ; this is the moft mifchievous and comprehenfive innovation ; Tingle...

...obtrude borrowed tefm* and exotick expreffions. The great pefl of f[>eech is frequency of tranflation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomethingof its native idiom; this is the moft mifchievous and comprehenfive innovation; fingle words...

...fpeech(fayb that eminent critic, in the nnble preface to his dictionary) is frequency of tranflation. — No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting fomething of its native idiom : this is t~.e moft mifchievous, and comprehenlive innovation : fingle...

...of those who employed themselves in translating it. ' The great pest of speech,' says Johnson, ' is frequency of translation. No book was ever ' turned...without imparting ' something of its native idiom.' But the extent to which this importation of French words was carried in the translations of the metrical...

...he translates, changes nothing but the language. vIbid. p. 94 & 99. The greatest pest of speech, is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation: single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same; but new phr.ise»logy changes much at once ; it alters not...

...wittingly done so) will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. Let it also be remembered, that no book was ever turned from one language into another,...without imparting something of its native idiom." • How would я handful of men have been able to check Bonaparte at Acre, liad not the talents of...

...refinement and affectation,, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...mind, as my apology, the observation of the first of critics and the best of men, Dr. Johnson, that — "No book was ever turned from one language into another,...without imparting something of its native idiom." I . cannot, in my judgment, be too often inculcated nor too earnestly impressed. The last five are...

...and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. , The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...refinement and affectation. will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...