Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... sometimes deviating so capri- ciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply with the rule of his adversa- ries , lest he should lose the end by the means , and be left alone by following the crowd . When a ...
... sometimes deviating so capri- ciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply with the rule of his adversa- ries , lest he should lose the end by the means , and be left alone by following the crowd . When a ...
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... sometimes proper to trace back the orthography of different ages , and show . by what gradations the word de- parted from its original . Closely connected with orthography is pronun- ciation , the stability of which is of great ...
... sometimes proper to trace back the orthography of different ages , and show . by what gradations the word de- parted from its original . Closely connected with orthography is pronun- ciation , the stability of which is of great ...
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... sometimes 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 ...
... sometimes 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 ...
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... sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , as proud , prouder , proudest ; and sometimes by particles prefixed , as ambitious , more ambitious , most ambitious . The forms of our verbs are sub- ject to great variety ; some end ...
... sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , as proud , prouder , proudest ; and sometimes by particles prefixed , as ambitious , more ambitious , most ambitious . The forms of our verbs are sub- ject to great variety ; some end ...
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... sometimes prolong their duration , it will rarely give them perpetuity ; and their changes will be almost always informing us , that language is the work of man , of a being from whom permanence and stability cannot be derived . Words ...
... sometimes prolong their duration , it will rarely give them perpetuity ; and their changes will be almost always informing us , that language is the work of man , of a being from whom permanence and stability cannot be derived . Words ...
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