The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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Page 106
... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , was announced to the world , by the publication of its Plan or PROSPECTUS . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation , I do not know . I once asked him by what means he had attained ...
... ENGLISH LANGUAGE , was announced to the world , by the publication of its Plan or PROSPECTUS . How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation , I do not know . I once asked him by what means he had attained ...
Page 417
... English , and makes " the fools who use it , " truly ridiculous . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English Gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual attention ...
... English , and makes " the fools who use it , " truly ridiculous . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an unaffected English Gentleman . A studied and factitious pronunciation , which requires perpetual attention ...
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... English , rather than in Latin : As We think that the Memory of so eminent an English Writer ought to be perpetuated in the language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Omament , whicheve also know to have been the ...
... English , rather than in Latin : As We think that the Memory of so eminent an English Writer ought to be perpetuated in the language , to which his Works are likely to be so lasting an Omament , whicheve also know to have been the ...
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