 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...  The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy - Page 34by Royal Irish Academy - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...virtue. He has accumulated in this work a treasure of moral science, which will not be soon exhausted. He has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something he certainly has added to the... | |
 | 1823 - 696 pages
...is much less easy to catch the subtle graces of Addison. At the conclusion of the Rambler he boasts with his Majesty in the library at the Queen's house. He had frequently visited tho irom colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations." The result of his labour... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 370 pages
...citii. QUINTIL. lib. x. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding 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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...none I think will deny that it is stated with equal modesty and truth : " I have laboured," says he, " 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 - 1825 - 702 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, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 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, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have are at an end, we may hope for barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have luhoured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, per! haps, I have added to the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...establishment of our present refinement, and it is with truth he observes of his Rambler, " That he had laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of... | |
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