Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... perhaps to conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will very often be ...
... perhaps to conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will very often be ...
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... perhaps I may at last have reason to say , after one of the augmenters of Furetier , that my book is more learned than its author . In explaining the general and popular language , it seems necessary to sort the several senses of each ...
... perhaps I may at last have reason to say , after one of the augmenters of Furetier , that my book is more learned than its author . In explaining the general and popular language , it seems necessary to sort the several senses of each ...
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... time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces- sary to distinguish those irregularities that are in- herent in our tongue , and perhaps coëval with it , from others which the ignorance or negligence of later writers 32 PREFACE TO THE.
... time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces- sary to distinguish those irregularities that are in- herent in our tongue , and perhaps coëval with it , from others which the ignorance or negligence of later writers 32 PREFACE TO THE.
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... perhaps not often rashly , the preference . I have left , in the examples , to every author his own practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by ...
... perhaps not often rashly , the preference . I have left , in the examples , to every author his own practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by ...
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... perhaps the greater part is from the modern to the ancient practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those , whose thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow ...
... perhaps the greater part is from the modern to the ancient practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those , whose thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow ...
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