 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...the tirse of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Sjienser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from ShaksJieare, few ideas Vould be lost to mankind,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a. periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...wealth, had not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that " few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed."* In a periodical publication, therefo.re, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...not sunk beneath our most sublime and energetic writers; and he has himself declared, that '.' fcw ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed." * In a periodical publication, therefore, the business of which is not to discuss the niceties of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...Raleigh -, the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spen&r and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker,...Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare;— few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words in which they might be... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 432 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker, and the translation of the Bible j the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, ami navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon;...navigation, from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction fiom Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare, few Ideas would be lost to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker...of English words, in which they might be expressed. It is not sufficient that a word is found, unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently... | |
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From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from... 
