 If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Sida 3321850Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to «top eam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work...wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich rel If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sidor
...endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if ft be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 sidor
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour with all their influence to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...more perfect than his practice. Johnson is sometimes unjustly represented as having introduced into the language many new words of Latin lineage. In truth,... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1855 - 386 sidor
...for the cultivation of our style, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour to stop the license of translators, whose idleness...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France." " Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment, were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 sidor
...changes much at once ; it alters not the single stones of the building, but the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France, &c. 16. From Burke' s Speech on the case of the Nabob ofArcot:— 1785.1 When at length Hyder AH found... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 sidor
...changes much at once; it alters not the single stones of the building, but the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France, &c. 16. From Bui-Tee's Speech on the Case of the Nabob o/Arcot:—17S5.1 When at length Hyder Ali found... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 sidor
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 sidor
...changes much at once ; it alters not the single stones of the building, but the order of the columns. contemplation If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 sidor
...endearur, with all their influence, to stop the Ícense of translators, whose idleness and gnorance, If the changes that we fear be thus irreistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | 1881 - 578 sidor
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble the dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce... | |
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