 I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony...  The Scots Magazine - Seite 4351752Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1817
...icribendojit ut citJ. UU1XTIL. LIB. X. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, ' I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms and irregular combinations: something perhaps I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | 1822
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | 1823
...easy to catch the subtle graces of Addison. At the conclusion of the Rambler he boasts that " he has 5 C x aP I` LN /m^! . Pw ~ ' M0 8 !R N: 2 H̃ B ¸t ze i 0 * barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." The result of his labour is awkward stateliness... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823
...fit nt citii. QUINTIL. lib. x. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, " I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations: something perhaps I have... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...has accumulated in this work a treasure of moral science, which will not be soon exhausted. He has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something he certainly has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
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