Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 2Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1921 |
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... English pronunciation . ' JOHNSON . Why , Sir , few of them do , because they do not persevere after acquir- ing a certain degree of it . But , Sir , there can be no doubt that they may attain to a perfect English pronunciation , if ...
... English pronunciation . ' JOHNSON . Why , Sir , few of them do , because they do not persevere after acquir- ing a certain degree of it . But , Sir , there can be no doubt that they may attain to a perfect English pronunciation , if ...
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... English , as we are apt to call what is far re- moved from the Scotch , but which is by no means good Eng- lish , and makes , ' the fools who use it , ' truly ridiculous ' . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an ...
... English , as we are apt to call what is far re- moved from the Scotch , but which is by no means good Eng- lish , and makes , ' the fools who use it , ' truly ridiculous ' . Good English is plain , easy , and smooth in the mouth of an ...
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... English . [ A.D. 1772 . should speak as broad as a certain prosperous member of Parliament from that country ' ; though it has been well ob- served , that it has been of no small use to him ; as it rouses the attention of the House by ...
... English . [ A.D. 1772 . should speak as broad as a certain prosperous member of Parliament from that country ' ; though it has been well ob- served , that it has been of no small use to him ; as it rouses the attention of the House by ...
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