 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
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 Seiten
...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavored 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." (Could anything be more... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 314 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... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 316 Seiten
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. am er. j 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 - 1901 - 206 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, licentiousidioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 Seiten
...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.' At this time he was in... | |
 | 1919 - 496 Seiten
...language, often stigmatizing them as 'low' and ' ungrammaticar in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'.2 Although this point of... | |
 | 588 Seiten
...but it is always controlled by the serious purpose. In concluding The Rambler, he stated that he had laboured ' to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." At this time he was in... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 Seiten
...naturally would exercise an important influence on diction. The nature of this influence he describes thus: "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... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 Seiten
...of Frederick the Great, i. 11. 4 Carlyle's essay on Johnson. f II JOHNSON'S STYLE AND MANNERISMS " 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1925 - 324 Seiten
...often stigmatizing them as " low " and " ungrammatical " in his Dictionary, and declaring that he had laboured " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." 2 Although this point of... | |
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