...the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our stile ... let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries,...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...

...the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, ... let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries,...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....

...couple of subordinate clauses: "If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied,...the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy . . ." Even today, an academy may be tremendously useful for a language. It can create a standard out...