 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
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 202 pages
...style of every prose writer since his time. His object may be best expressed in his own words : " He laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and he has added to the elegance of its... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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 - 1889 - 316 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... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...establishment of imr present refinement, and it Is with truth that he observes of his Bambler. "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... | |
 | 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
...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 - 1901 - 206 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, 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... | |
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