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This will much facilitate the attainment of our language, which now stands in our
dictionaries a confused heap of words ... from foreign languages, which may be
often very successfully performed by the assistance of our own etymologists.
This will much facilitate the attainment of our language, which now stands in our
dictionaries a confused heap of words ... from foreign languages, which may be
often very successfully performed by the assistance of our own etymologists.
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By tracing in this manner every word to its original, and not admitting, but with
great caution, any of which no original can be found, we shall secure our
language from being over-run with cant, from being crowded with low terms, the
spawn of ...
By tracing in this manner every word to its original, and not admitting, but with
great caution, any of which no original can be found, we shall secure our
language from being over-run with cant, from being crowded with low terms, the
spawn of ...
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Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient, and in
themselves once unnecessary, must be tolerated among the imperfections of
human things, and which require only to be registered, that they may not be
increased, and ...
Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient, and in
themselves once unnecessary, must be tolerated among the imperfections of
human things, and which require only to be registered, that they may not be
increased, and ...
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It is of great importance, in examining the general fabrick of a language, to trace
one word from another, by noting the usual modes of derivation and inflection ;
and uniformity must be preserved in systematical works ; though sometimes at
the ...
It is of great importance, in examining the general fabrick of a language, to trace
one word from another, by noting the usual modes of derivation and inflection ;
and uniformity must be preserved in systematical works ; though sometimes at
the ...
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With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues
of their languages, to retain fugitives, and ... The French language has visibly
changed under the inspection of the Academy ; the style of Amelot's translation of
...
With this hope, however, academies have been instituted, to guard the avenues
of their languages, to retain fugitives, and ... The French language has visibly
changed under the inspection of the Academy ; the style of Amelot's translation of
...
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