Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... advantage than the price of my labour . I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind , as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning , nor the ...
... advantage than the price of my labour . I knew that the work in which I engaged is generally considered as drudgery for the blind , as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning , nor the ...
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... advantage to the common workman . The title which I prefix to my work has long conveyed a very miscellaneous idea , and they that take a dictionary into their hands have been accus- tomed to expect from it a solution of almost every ...
... advantage to the common workman . The title which I prefix to my work has long conveyed a very miscellaneous idea , and they that take a dictionary into their hands have been accus- tomed to expect from it a solution of almost every ...
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... advantage ; and as inconstancy is in every case a mark of weak- ness , it will add nothing to the reputation of our tongue . There are , indeed , some who despise the inconveniences of confusion , who seem to take plea- sure in ...
... advantage ; and as inconstancy is in every case a mark of weak- ness , it will add nothing to the reputation of our tongue . There are , indeed , some who despise the inconveniences of confusion , who seem to take plea- sure in ...
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... advantage can be gained by a short quotation , it is not to be omitted . The difference of signification in words generally accounted synonymous ought to be carefully ob- served ; as in pride , haughtiness , arrogance : and the strict ...
... advantage can be gained by a short quotation , it is not to be omitted . The difference of signification in words generally accounted synonymous ought to be carefully ob- served ; as in pride , haughtiness , arrogance : and the strict ...
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... advantage , which will always overbalance the slow improvements of gradual correction . Much less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes ...
... advantage , which will always overbalance the slow improvements of gradual correction . Much less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes ...
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