 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...  Tracts on Political and Other Subjects - Page 422by Joseph Towers - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...stateliness and a preponderance of Latin words. " I have labored," he says in the closing paper, " 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... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 314 pages
...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 added to the... | |
 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 316 pages
...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 added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...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 added to the elegance... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...extraordinary circulation. No fewer than ten editions appeared during the author's life. the closing paper, " 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...extraordinary circulation. No fewer than ten editions appeared during the author's life. the closing paper, " 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... | |
 | 1909 - 616 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have labonred to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations'. usf vgl. Raleigh's Leslie Stephen Lecture... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...Plan, written eight years earlier, especially the close. In Rambler 208 (1752) he says: 'I have labored 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 pages
...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 the midst of a similar... | |
 | Yorkshire Dialect Society - 1914 - 98 pages
...and make it conform to certain abstract rules and principles. " I have laboured," Dr. Johnson said, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations."* Intellect ualism of this kind, the desire... | |
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