The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... improvement of their native tongues ; and in which dictionaries were written under the protection of greatness . To the patrons of such undertakings I willingly paid the homage of believing that they , who were thus solicitous for the ...
... improvement of their native tongues ; and in which dictionaries were written under the protection of greatness . To the patrons of such undertakings I willingly paid the homage of believing that they , who were thus solicitous for the ...
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... improvement of modern writers ; that it may pro- mote the reformation of those translators , who , for want of understanding the characteristical differ- ence of tongues , have formed a chaotic dialect of heterogeneous phrases ; and ...
... improvement of modern writers ; that it may pro- mote the reformation of those translators , who , for want of understanding the characteristical differ- ence of tongues , have formed a chaotic dialect of heterogeneous phrases ; and ...
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... improvements of gradual correction . Much less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral ut- terance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes ...
... improvements of gradual correction . Much less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral ut- terance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes ...
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... improvement from a mind utterly unequal to the whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably ...
... improvement from a mind utterly unequal to the whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably ...
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... - haps , without much improvement ; for I did not find by my first experiments , that what I had not of my own was easily to be obtained : I saw that one enquiry only gave occasion to another , that book referred 56 PREFACE TO THE.
... - haps , without much improvement ; for I did not find by my first experiments , that what I had not of my own was easily to be obtained : I saw that one enquiry only gave occasion to another , that book referred 56 PREFACE TO THE.
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