| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 páginas
...sound. But what I have most at heart, is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever, after such alterations...as shall be thought requisite. For I am of opinion, that it is better a language should riot be wholly perfect, than that it should be perpetually changing... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 384 páginas
...sound. But what I have most at heart, is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever, after such alterations...shall be thought requisite. For I am of opinion, it 5s better a language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should be perpetually changing; and... | |
| 1869 - 862 páginas
...he should take the initiative in devising some means for " ascertaining and fixing the language/or ever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite." This notion of circumscribing the language within some artificial boundary was indeed the dominant... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...sound. But what I have most at heart is, that some method ihould be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever, after such alterations...is better a language should not be wholly perfect, tlian tliat it should be perpetually changing ; and we must give over at one time, or at length infallibly... | |
| 1869 - 668 páginas
...he should take the initiative in devising some means for " ascertaining and fixing the language far ever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite." This notion of circumscribing the language within some artificial boundary was indeed the dominant... | |
| 1869 - 1500 páginas
...Government, he should take the initiative in devising some means for " ascertaining and fixing the language for ever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite." This notion of circumscribing the language within some artificial boundary was indeed the dominant... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 páginas
...that " some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever," and that " it is better a language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should be perpetually changing." English Traite. A series of sketches of English life and character, written by RALPH WALDO EMERSON... | |
| 1881 - 516 páginas
...at heart is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language forever. For I am of opinion, it is better a language should...perfect, than that it should be perpetually changing." With all his knowledge, he did not seem to know that a language changes while it lives, and can not... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 páginas
...sound. But what I have most at heart, is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and ! fixing our language for ever, after such alterations...are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I j am of opinion, it is better a language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should be perpetually... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 254 páginas
...at heart is that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language forever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be...be perpetually changing; and we must give over at cine time, or at length infallibly change for a worse; as the Romans. did when they began to quit their... | |
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