THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... perhaps , the exact and pure idea of a grammatical dictionary ; but in lexicography , as in other arts , naked science is too delicate for the purposes of life . The value of a work must be estimated by its use : it is not enough that a ...
... perhaps , the exact and pure idea of a grammatical dictionary ; but in lexicography , as in other arts , naked science is too delicate for the purposes of life . The value of a work must be estimated by its use : it is not enough that a ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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... perhaps , of any other in our licentious language , is so esta- blished as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers . I shall therefore , since the rules of stile , like those of law , arise from precedents often re- peated ...
... perhaps , of any other in our licentious language , is so esta- blished as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers . I shall therefore , since the rules of stile , like those of law , arise from precedents often re- peated ...
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... the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved , its use ascertained , and its duration lengthened . And though , perhaps , to correct the language of 28 THE PLAN OF.
... the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved , its use ascertained , and its duration lengthened . And though , perhaps , to correct the language of 28 THE PLAN OF.
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