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words of correspondent sound, that one may guard the other against the danger
of that variation, which, to some of the most common, has already happened ; so
that the words wound and wind, as they are now frequently pronounced, will not ...
words of correspondent sound, that one may guard the other against the danger
of that variation, which, to some of the most common, has already happened ; so
that the words wound and wind, as they are now frequently pronounced, will not ...
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There remains yet to be considered the distribution of words into their proper
classes, or that part of lexicography which is strictly critical. The popular part of
the language, which includes all words not appropriated to particular sciences,
admits ...
There remains yet to be considered the distribution of words into their proper
classes, or that part of lexicography which is strictly critical. The popular part of
the language, which includes all words not appropriated to particular sciences,
admits ...
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The words which are represented as thus related by descent or cognation, do not
always agree in sense ; for it is incident to words, as to their authors, to
degenerate from their ancestors, and to change their manners when they change
their ...
The words which are represented as thus related by descent or cognation, do not
always agree in sense ; for it is incident to words, as to their authors, to
degenerate from their ancestors, and to change their manners when they change
their ...
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The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their metaphorical
acceptations, yet must be inserted for the sake of a regular origination. Thus I
know not whether ardour is used for material heat, or whether flagrant, in English,
ever ...
The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their metaphorical
acceptations, yet must be inserted for the sake of a regular origination. Thus I
know not whether ardour is used for material heat, or whether flagrant, in English,
ever ...
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... either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few :
men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use
requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same
signs.
... either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few :
men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use
requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same
signs.
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