 | Richard Cumberland - 1791 - 308 pages
...cito. (QJJINTIL. LIB. x.) THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper fays, / have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from F 2 colloquial 171273 collcquLil larbarifm.r, licentious idioms and irregular combinations : Jbmething... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...fhall be the final fentence of mankind, I have at leaft endeavoured to deferve their kindnefs. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarifms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...(hall be the final fentenee of mankind, I have at leaft endeavoured to deferve their kindnels. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from coK loqnial barbarifms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have addid... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...having contributed to the improvement of the Englifh language. He fays in his laft Rambler, " I have laboured to refine our " language to grammatical purity, and ". to clear it from colloquial barbarifms, " licentious idioms, and irregular combi". nations. Something, perhaps, I have " added... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1798 - 326 pages
...(QUINTIL. LIB. x.) *T<HE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper fays, / have latoured to refine our language to grammatical purity -„ and to clear it from colloquial barlarifms, licentious idioms and irregular combinations : fomething perhaps I have added to the elegance... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...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,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...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,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...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,...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps) I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...and it is with truth he observes of his Humbler, " that he had laboured to refine our language t,. grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction, and to the harmony of its cadence." This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...citl. QUINTIL. LIB. X. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his con. eluding 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 added to the elegance... | |
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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... 
