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" I dare pronounce, that our Speech would quickly arrive at as much plenty, as it is capable to receive; and at the greatest smoothness, which its derivation from the rough German will allow it. "
The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural ... - Page 42
by Thomas Sprat - 1667 - 438 pages
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Modern English

Fitzedward Hall - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1873 - 430 pages
...all his servants to use no French, but meer English, to the French, in all communication whatsoever." that our speech would quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it."...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 376 pages
...the ill Words, correct those which are to be retain'd, admit and establish the good, and make some emendations in the Accent and Grammar, I dare pronounce...quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to 5 receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it....
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...the ill words, correct those which are to be retained, admit and establish the good, and make some emendations in the accent and grammar, I dare pronounce...quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it. T....
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Yale Studies in English, Volume 57

English language - 1917 - 220 pages
...the ill words, correct those which are to be retained, admit and establish the good, and make some emendations in the accent and grammar, I dare pronounce...quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it.'...
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Der Gedanke einer englischen Sprachakademie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Hermann Martin Flasdieck - English language - 1928 - 264 pages
...the ill Words; correct those, which are to be retain'd; admit, and establish the good; and make some emendations in the Accent, and Grammar; I dare pronounce,...quickly arrive at as much plenty, as it is capable to receive; and at the greatest smoothness, which its derivation from the rough German will allow it....
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A History of the English Bible as Literature

David Norton - Bibles - 2000 - 526 pages
...The Wars brought both good and bad, and left the language capable of rapid perfection. Sprat believes 'that our speech would quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it' (p....
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Restoration Literature: An Anthology

Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...the ill words, correct those which are to be retained, admit and establish the good, and make some emendations in the accent and grammar, I dare pronounce...quickly arrive at as much plenty as it is capable to receive, and at the greatest smoothness which its derivation from the rough German will allow it. Nor...
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The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 pages
...the ill Words; correct those, which are to be retain'd; admit, and establish the good; and make some emendations in the Accent, and Grammar: I dare pronounce,...quickly arrive at as much plenty, as it is capable to receive ..." Unlike Cowley, Sprat is keenly aware of the historical effects of the Civil Wars on Restoration...
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