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Pagina 137
... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and bar- barous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
... language , but has formed what Butler calls a Babylonish Dialect , in itself harsh and bar- barous , but made by exalted genius and extensive learning , the vehicle of so much instruction and so much pleasure , that , like other lovers ...
Pagina 164
... language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined ...
... language , and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined ...
Pagina 416
... language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A Bowling- green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and by the ...
... language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A Bowling- green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and by the ...
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