...nothing to our present purpose) : ' From the authors,' says he, ' which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed ' adequate to all the purposes...language ' of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translators ' of the Bible, the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon, the ' phrases of policy, war,...

...northern part of die United Kingdom. " From die authors," says he, " which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed, adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." Now let any one compare the Scotch and English writers in the time of queen Elizabedi, and say which...

...pretensions to classical estimation. "From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth," observes Johnson, "a speech might be formed, adequate to all...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Jinleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life...

...boundary, beyond which I imke few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elisabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from RaJeigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life...

...by S. Johnson as the pure and genuine sourees of our language ; and he observes that, from them, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance." In no period, however, was a language made " a gallimaufrey, or hodge-podge of all other speeches,"...

...incorporate easily with our native idioms. " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...extracted from Hooker, and the translation of the Bible j the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh...

...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, ami navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction...

...of style, expression's every grace, Each elegance of speech, 'tis his to trace ; beth," says he, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use, and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible...

...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Rakigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from...

...interesting period, that Johnson * has declared his opinion, that from the authors which rose in her time, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. Nor should we forget, that to her protecting care, extended to this countiy, then sunk in barbarism,...