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: are sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , as proud , prouder , proudest and sometimes by particles prefixed , as , ambitious , more ambitious , most ambitious . The forms of our verbs are sub- ject to great variety ...
: are sometimes compared by changing the last syl- lable , as proud , prouder , proudest and sometimes by particles prefixed , as , ambitious , more ambitious , most ambitious . The forms of our verbs are sub- ject to great variety ...
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Though art may sometimes prolong their duration , it will rarely give them perpetuity ; and their changes will be almost always informing us , that language is the work of man , of a being from whom permanence and stability cannot be ...
Though art may sometimes prolong their duration , it will rarely give them perpetuity ; and their changes will be almost always informing us , that language is the work of man , of a being from whom permanence and stability cannot be ...
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... Sometimes the sense of a substantive may be elucidated by the epithets an- nexed to it in good authors ; as , the boundless ocean , the open lawns : and where such advantage can be gained by a short quotation , it is not to be omitted ...
... Sometimes the sense of a substantive may be elucidated by the epithets an- nexed to it in good authors ; as , the boundless ocean , the open lawns : and where such advantage can be gained by a short quotation , it is not to be omitted ...
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... sometimes bear its disappointments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved ...
... sometimes bear its disappointments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved ...
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... sometimes the desire of accuracy will urge me to superfluities , and sometimes the fear of prolixity betray me to omissions : that in the extent of such variety , I shall be often bewildered ; and in the mazes of such intricacy , be ...
... sometimes the desire of accuracy will urge me to superfluities , and sometimes the fear of prolixity betray me to omissions : that in the extent of such variety , I shall be often bewildered ; and in the mazes of such intricacy , be ...
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