| 1851 - 644 páginas
...Dictionary, is as follows : — " If an academy should he established for the cultivation of our style — which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavor with all their influence to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance,... | |
| W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 páginas
...should be established for the cultivation of our stile, which I, who can never wish to see dependance multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will...endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translatours, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble... | |
| Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 páginas
...should be established for the cultivation of our stile, which I, who can never wish to see dependance multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will...endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translatours, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble... | |
| Jørgen Erik Nielsen - 1992 - 166 páginas
...but the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...their influence to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.... | |
| Tony Crowley - 1996 - 228 páginas
...for them. Johnson summed it up: If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our stile, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose influence and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of... | |
| Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 páginas
...Preface to the Dictionary declares: If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...dictionaries, endeavour with all their influence to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us... | |
| Carl Watner - 1999 - 504 páginas
...pride, unwilling to measure its desires by strength. ... If an academy should be established . . . which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy [it]. English Can Take Care of Itself In 1761, Joseph Priestley echoed Johnson's negative view by inserting... | |
| Ian Baucom - 1999 - 260 páginas
...manages to indicate that "if an Academy should be established for the cultivation of our [pure] style ... I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy [it]" (xiv). With this last admission, Johnson betrays the full ambivalence of this meditation on Englishness:... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 páginas
...should be established for the cultivation of our stile, which I, who can never wish to see dependance multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will...endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translatours, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble... | |
| Ron Norman, Anne Watkiss - 2001 - 262 páginas
...dumbing down? Come off it! 4. If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our stile, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...endeavour with all their influence, to stop the licence of translatours, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble... | |
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