 ... 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
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1122 páginas
...degree is that which Is expressed by the adjective in it* simple form. LESSON I. — PARSING. " My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of th« nation, complain to your Lordship, as first minister, that our language is imperfect; that its... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 páginas
...any other of your glorious actions, yet perhaps, in future ages, not less to your honour. I My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite...improvements • are by no means in proportion to its daily corrup* tions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, success ; precision and perspicuity not... | |
 | Dieter Stein, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - 342 páginas
...is Swift's Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue of 1712. Writing in the name of "all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation", Swift explained how the natural impoliteness of the English language had been aggravated by historical... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 páginas
...a stage further by arguing that constant change in the language led to disorder and corruption: ... I do here, in the name of all the learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain . . . that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 páginas
...disorder. ... I do here, in the name of all the learned and Polire Persons of the Nation, complain . . . that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in propornon to its daily Cortupnons; that the Prerenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Jack Lynch, John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 páginas
...linguistic impurity, Swift's Proposal of 17 12. Swift finds "our Language . . . extremely imperfect ... its daily Improvements are by no Means in Proportion to its daily Corruptions." The modern vitiated style was widespread: "These Corruptions very few of the best Authors in our Age... | |
 | Guy Deutscher - 2006 - 372 páginas
...fanfare: 'I do here, in the Name of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain . . . that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its...by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions . . .' and that's only the beginning. So the English of today is not what it used to be, but then again,... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - 2006
...forward by Jonathan Swift, in A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English tongue: I do here, in the Name of all the Learned and polite Persons of the Nation, complain . . . that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion... | |
 | Mark Abley - 2008 - 284 páginas
...alarm about the state of English is nothing new. "Our language is extremely imperfect," Swift wrote; "its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions"; even worse, "it offends against every part of grammar." Latin for him offered a linguistic ideal against... | |
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