 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 606 pages
...certain men might be set apart as superintendants of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign j coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit...words, that it would be impossible for one of our great-grand-fathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a... | |
 | P. Blouët - 1888 - 216 pages
...liberties and commerce, certain men might be1 set apart2 as superintendents of our language, tohinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us...becoming current in this kingdom, when those of our stamp are altogether as valuable. * The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...over our laws our liberties and commerce, certain men might be set apart as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from...in particular to prohibit any French phrases from being current in this kingdom, when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable. The present... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1888 - 714 pages
...of the use of French words and military phrases during the war under Marlborough, and remarks " that the present war has so adulterated our tongue with...words, that it would be impossible for one of our great-grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a... | |
 | Max O'Rell - English - 1892 - 260 pages
...over our laws, our liberties, and commerce, certain men might be set apart as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from...becoming current in this kingdom, when those of our stamp are altogether as valuable. The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 394 pages
...borough brought in a great accession of French words. Addison, commenting upon the fact, remarks: " The present war has so adulterated our tongue with...words, that it would be impossible for one of our greatgrandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - English language - 1906 - 448 pages
...coffee-house, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style."1 The Spectator would also " prohibit any French phrases from becoming current...those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable." One other fear, particularly strong in the eighteenth century, was that the changes going on in the... | |
 | Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury - 1894 - 452 pages
...coffee-house, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style." 1 The Spectator would also " prohibit any French phrases from becoming current...those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable." One other fear, particularly strong in the eighteenth century, was that the changes going on in the... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1896 - 290 pages
...a coffee-house, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style." The Spectator also wished to " prohibit any French phrases from becoming current...those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable." notwithstanding occasional references, it was probably not an important factor in affecting language... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - English language - 1896 - 292 pages
...a coffee-house, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style." The Spectator also wished to " prohibit any French phrases from becoming current...those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable." 103. With the conservatives, in their influence upon language, must be classed the lexicographers.... | |
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... as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable. 
