 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 - 448 Seiten
...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 - 432 Seiten
...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 - 422 Seiten
...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 - 414 Seiten
...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 - 370 Seiten
...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 - 696 Seiten
...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 - 370 Seiten
...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 - 748 Seiten
...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 - 506 Seiten
...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 - 702 Seiten
...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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