 ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances...  Blackwood's Magazine - Página 2821927Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 páginas
...any other of your glorious actions, yet, perhaps, in future ages not less to your honour. My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite...daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 580 páginas
...been more neat and happy, and its unity more complete, if the members of it had been arranged thus : ' That our language is extremely imperfect ; that its...means in proportion to its daily corruptions ; that, in many instances, it offends against every part of grammar ; and that the pretenders to polish and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 536 páginas
...been more neat and happy, and its unity more complete, if the members of it had been arranged thus: " That our Language is extremely " imperfect; that its...means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that, " in many instances, it offends against every part of VoL. i. HH " grammar; and that the pretenders... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 468 páginas
..." My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the " learned and polite persons of the nation, com" plain to your lordship, as first minister, that our " language...to " its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to po" lish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses " and absurdities ; and that, in many instances,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 páginas
...whose chief effect is no other than to give their language a stiff and forced appearance ? ^ " My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite...complain to your Lordship, as first minister, that eur language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 páginas
...been more neat and happy, and its unity more complete, if the members of it had been arranged thus: 'That our language is extremely imperfect; that its...means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that, in many instances, it offends against every part of grammar: and that the pretenders to polish and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 páginas
...wlio.se chief effect is no other than to give their language a stifi' and forced appearance ! " My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite...minister, that our language is extremely imperfect ; tliat its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1853 - 246 páginas
...lordship will agree with me. 233 2. The Romans made no attempts till the time of Claudius. 3. My lord, I here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons...Minister, that our language is extremely imperfect. 4. William the Conqueror proceeded not much further. 5. I firmly believe that he was instigated by... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1096 páginas
...LESSON I. — PARSING. "My Lord, I do here, in the ñamo of all the learned and polite persons of t::1 nation, complain to your Lordship, as first minister, that our language is imperf-vt . that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to ils daily comiptioaai that... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 páginas
...whose chief effect is no other than to give their language a stiff and forced appearance? 'My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to yourLordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements... | |
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