| James Ferguson - 1823 - 378 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 748 pagina’s
...accumulated in this work a treasure of moral science, which will not be soon exhausted. He has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something he certainly has added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence*.... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 754 pagina’s
...celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, ' I have laboured to refine our language'io grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...idioms, and irregular combinations: something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' I hope... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 416 pagina’s
...letters, that we can THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, ' I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms,licentious idioms, and irregular combinations: something perhaps I have added to the elegance... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its conitrnction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have luhoured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, per! haps, I have added to the elegance of its coni atruction, and something to the harmony of its... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 452 pagina’s
...of our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his Rambler, " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction and to the harmony of its cadence.'' In this... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pagina’s
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, end irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and... | |
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