...laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something,...ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any...

...laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms and irregular combinations : something...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' I hope our language hath gained all the profit, which the labours of this meritorious writer were exerted...

...unusual structure, and words derived from the learned languages. His own account of the matter is, " When " common words were less pleasing to the ear, " or less distinct in their signification, 1 fami" liarized the terms of philosophy, by applying " them to popular ideas." But he forgot the observation...

...the simplicity of common life. But let us attend to what he himself says in his concluding paper: " When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or...of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas." * And, as to the second part of this objection, upon a late careful revision of the work, I can with...

...it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and...-distinct in their signification, I have familiarised Ihe terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorised...

...Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear 'it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something,...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." How far he has succeeded in his efforts, and in * I am speaking in this place, solely of his novels...

...Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something,...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." How far he has succeeded in his efforts, and in * I am speaking in this place, solely of his novels...

...Rambler, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something,...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." How far he has succeeded in his efforts, and in • I am speaking in this place, solely of his novels...

...unusual structure, and words derived from the learned language!;. His own account of the matter is, " When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas." But he forgot the observation...

...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 Us construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing...