Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... less acquainted ; and if they are all rejected , how will the reader be relieved from difficulties produced by allusions to the crocodile , the chameleon , the ich- neumon , and the hyæna ? If no plants are to be mentioned , the most ...
... less acquainted ; and if they are all rejected , how will the reader be relieved from difficulties produced by allusions to the crocodile , the chameleon , the ich- neumon , and the hyæna ? If no plants are to be mentioned , the most ...
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... less either their propriety , elegance , or force , or the reputation of their authors , affords some extra- ordinary reason for their reception . Words used in burlesque and familiar composi- tions , will be likewise mentioned with ...
... less either their propriety , elegance , or force , or the reputation of their authors , affords some extra- ordinary reason for their reception . Words used in burlesque and familiar composi- tions , will be likewise mentioned with ...
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... less different , as books are multiplied ; and from this arbitrary representation of sounds by letters proceeds that diversity of spelling observable in the Saxon remains , and I suppose in the first books of VOL . II . D every nation ...
... less different , as books are multiplied ; and from this arbitrary representation of sounds by letters proceeds that diversity of spelling observable in the Saxon remains , and I suppose in the first books of VOL . II . D every nation ...
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... less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes , which will again be changed , while ...
... less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes , which will again be changed , while ...
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... less apt to decay , and that signs might be permanent , like the things which they denote . In settling the orthography , I have not wholly neglected the pronunciation , which I have directed , by printing an accent upon the acute or ...
... less apt to decay , and that signs might be permanent , like the things which they denote . In settling the orthography , I have not wholly neglected the pronunciation , which I have directed , by printing an accent upon the acute or ...
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