Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... practice has , in my opinion , a claim to preference which preserves the greatest number of radical let- ters , or seems most to comply with the general cus- tom of our language . But the chief rule which I propose to follow is , to ...
... practice has , in my opinion , a claim to preference which preserves the greatest number of radical let- ters , or seems most to comply with the general cus- tom of our language . But the chief rule which I propose to follow is , to ...
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... practice is of great use in synoptical lexicons , where mutilated and doubtful languages are explained by their af- finity to others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English etymologies . When the word is ...
... practice is of great use in synoptical lexicons , where mutilated and doubtful languages are explained by their af- finity to others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English etymologies . When the word is ...
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... practice and observation were con- tinually increasing ; and analogy , which , though in some words obscure , was evident in others . In adjusting the Orthography , which has been to this time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces ...
... practice and observation were con- tinually increasing ; and analogy , which , though in some words obscure , was evident in others . In adjusting the Orthography , which has been to this time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces ...
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... practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by re- puted or by real learning ; some men , intent upon greater things , have thought little on ...
... practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by re- puted or by real learning ; some men , intent upon greater things , have thought little on ...
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... 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 views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their ...
... 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 views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their ...
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