...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, I familiarized 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." 1 And, as to the second part of this objection, upon a late careful revision of the work, I can with...

...i. 218. In the last Rambler, speaking of what he had himself done for our language, he says :.— ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' objected Elphinstoris MARTIAL. objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses, and his want...

...i. 218. In the last Rambler, speaking of what he had himself done for our language, he says :— ' Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of...construction^ and something to the harmony of its cadence.' objected 258 Elphinston's MARTIAL. [Aj>.ms. objected to for his parentheses, his involved clauses,...

...his arduous efforts to refine the language. In justification of his use of unusual terms he says, " When common words were less pleasing to the ear or less distinct I have familiarized terms of philosophy 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.1 When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification,...

...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.1 When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification,...

...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...

...licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. < Something, perhaps,' he wrote at the end of the SamUer, 'I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' This elegance is generally considered to be mechanical, and this harmony monotonous. It is the sound...

...colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations," that " something perhaps he has added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence"; be proceeds to subjoin the following passage : " When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or...