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Page 117
... language , has never succeeded in ours , which , having greater variety of termination , requires the rhymes to be often changed . Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care . I am ...
... language , has never succeeded in ours , which , having greater variety of termination , requires the rhymes to be often changed . Those little pieces may be dispatched without much anxiety ; a greater work calls for greater care . I am ...
Page 158
... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless thought rightly ; but the event has not shewn that they fixed it ; for the French of the ...
... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and doubtless thought rightly ; but the event has not shewn that they fixed it ; for the French of the ...
Page 401
... language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A Bowling - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and by ...
... language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A Bowling - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and by ...
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