 It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of anarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade, many words and expressions have been imported, adopted, and naturalized from other...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 206avtor: James Boswell - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
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...from other languages, which have greatly enriched our own. Let it dill preferve what real ftrength and beauty it may have borrowed from others ; but let it not, like the Tarfcian maid, be overwhelmed and crufhed by unneceflary foreign ornaments. The time for difcrimination... | |
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