The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 10F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... advocate for the authority of pronuncia- tion found it sometimes deviating so capriciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply with the rule of his adversaries , lest he 10 THE PLAN OF.
... advocate for the authority of pronuncia- tion found it sometimes deviating so capriciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply with the rule of his adversaries , lest he 10 THE PLAN OF.
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... ; in gibberish , for gebrish , the jargon of Geber , and his chymical followers , understood by none but their own tribe . It will be likewise sometimes proper to trace back the orthography AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 11.
... ; in gibberish , for gebrish , the jargon of Geber , and his chymical followers , understood by none but their own tribe . It will be likewise sometimes proper to trace back the orthography AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 11.
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Samuel Johnson. will be likewise sometimes proper to trace back the orthography of different ages , and shew by what gradations the word departed from its original . Closely connected with orthography is pronuncia- tion , the stability ...
Samuel Johnson. will be likewise sometimes proper to trace back the orthography of different ages , and shew by what gradations the word departed from its original . Closely connected with orthography is pronuncia- tion , the stability ...
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... sometimes perhaps to conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study , cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will ...
... sometimes perhaps to conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study , cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will ...
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... in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives are sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , 16 THE PLAN OF.
... in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives are sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , 16 THE PLAN OF.
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