THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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from others which the ignorance or negligence of later writers has produced . Every language has its anomalies , which though inconvenient , and in themselves once unnecessary , must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things ...
from others which the ignorance or negligence of later writers has produced . Every language has its anomalies , which though inconvenient , and in themselves once unnecessary , must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things ...
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of every nation , which perplexes or destroys ana- logy , and produces anomalous formations , which , being once incorporated , can never be afterward dis- missed or reformed . Of this kind are the derivatives length from long ...
of every nation , which perplexes or destroys ana- logy , and produces anomalous formations , which , being once incorporated , can never be afterward dis- missed or reformed . Of this kind are the derivatives length from long ...
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... produce obscurity . For this reason I have endeavoured frequently to join a Teutonick and Roman interpretation , as to cheer , to gladden , or exhilarate , that every learner of En- glish may be assisted by his own tongue . The solution ...
... produce obscurity . For this reason I have endeavoured frequently to join a Teutonick and Roman interpretation , as to cheer , to gladden , or exhilarate , that every learner of En- glish may be assisted by his own tongue . The solution ...
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... produced more incumbrance than as- sistance ; by this I obtained at least one advantage , that I set limits to my work , which would in time be ended , though not completed . Despondency has never so far prevailed as to de- press me to ...
... produced more incumbrance than as- sistance ; by this I obtained at least one advantage , that I set limits to my work , which would in time be ended , though not completed . Despondency has never so far prevailed as to de- press me to ...
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... produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability , shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language , and secure it from cor- ruption and decay , that it is in his power to change ...
... produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability , shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language , and secure it from cor- ruption and decay , that it is in his power to change ...
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