 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
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...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. (Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary 1755:xii, quoted in Baker 1992:46) What seems to be prevalent... | |
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