 The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious,...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Pagina 283door Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pagina’s
...converfation of the Scots. grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englifh ; their peculiarities wear faft away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 pagina’s
...away; their dialectis likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Engli/h phrafe, and the Engli/h pronunciation, and in fplendid companies Scotch is not much heard,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pagina’s
...converfation of the Scots grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englijh; their peculiarities wear falt away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pagina’s
...converfation of the Scots grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englijh ; their peculiarities wear faft away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to them* felves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pagina’s
...their dialect is likely to become in half half a century provincial and ruftick, even to them* felves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Englijh phrafe, and the Englijh pronunciation, and in fplendid companies Scotch is not much heard,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pagina’s
...elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day loss unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pagina’s
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which, perhaps, disclaims a pedant-s praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitions, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase arld the English pronunciation, and in splendid... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pagina’s
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pagina’s
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. , The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pagina’s
...advancement from my commemoration, or with womea of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Englinh phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard,... | |
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