The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 11Bell, 1907 |
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... common and every - day use . [ S. ] 2 In this passage Swift mistakes the History of the English language , which later philological researches have more accurately ascertained . after , there was a constant intercourse between France ...
... common and every - day use . [ S. ] 2 In this passage Swift mistakes the History of the English language , which later philological researches have more accurately ascertained . after , there was a constant intercourse between France ...
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... common people . But in order to maintain the necessary intercourse between the higher and lower classes , a composite language was intro- duced , grounded indeed upon the Anglo - Saxon vocabulary , but with the extinction of its ancient ...
... common people . But in order to maintain the necessary intercourse between the higher and lower classes , a composite language was intro- duced , grounded indeed upon the Anglo - Saxon vocabulary , but with the extinction of its ancient ...
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... common dictionaries before his time . But the English tongue is not arrived to such a degree of perfection , as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain standard , perhaps there might be ...
... common dictionaries before his time . But the English tongue is not arrived to such a degree of perfection , as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain standard , perhaps there might be ...
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... Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue , we should hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago ; which is certainly true ; for those books being perpetually read in churches , have proved a kind ...
... Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue , we should hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us a hundred years ago ; which is certainly true ; for those books being perpetually read in churches , have proved a kind ...
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... common opinions , I have ever thought there is piety in pride and ambition , and that it is a virtue to be emulous and aspiring ; and when I hear , as in my time I have many , conceited declamations against pride , I suspect it is with ...
... common opinions , I have ever thought there is piety in pride and ambition , and that it is a virtue to be emulous and aspiring ; and when I hear , as in my time I have many , conceited declamations against pride , I suspect it is with ...
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