...refinement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the sime ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...refinement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and tho fabrick of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters...

...his memory ; and haste, and negligence, refinement and affectation will obtrude borrowed expressions. No book was ever turned from one language into another,...innovation. Single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. and mood, and person, begot an exalted crisis. fabric of the tongue continue the eame ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands...arguing, too, the parson owned hie skill, For even, fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once ; it alters not the...

...led into it unconsciously; thus adding one more instance to the truth of Dr. Johnson's remark, that " no book was ever turned from one language into another,...without imparting something of its native idiom."* If, however, I have at all made myself intelligible in conveying the Singhalese into English, I trust...

...of those who employed themselves in translating it. ' The great pest of speech,' says Johnson, ' is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned...without imparting something of its native idiom.' But the extent to which this importation of French words was carried in the translations of the metrical...

...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and of Shakspeare, with a preface ; " Journey to the Hebrides ; " " Lives of the Poets ; " " Basselas."...

...tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another...innovation ; single words may enter by thousands, and the fabric of the tongue continue the same ; but new phraseology changes much at once; it alters not the...