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... practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some words obscure , was evident in others . In adjusting the Orthography , which has been to this time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces ...
... practice and observation were continually in- creasing ; and analogy , which , though in some words obscure , was evident in others . In adjusting the Orthography , which has been to this time unsettled and fortuitous , I found it neces ...
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... practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by reputed or by real learning ; some men , intent upon greater things , have thought little on sounds ...
... practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be determined by reputed or by real learning ; some men , intent upon greater things , have thought little on sounds ...
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... practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those , whose thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their ...
... practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those , whose thoughts have been perhaps employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their ...
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... practice . As by the cultivation of various sciences , a lan- guage is amplified , it will be more furnished with words deflected from their original sense ; the geo- metrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue ...
... practice . As by the cultivation of various sciences , a lan- guage is amplified , it will be more furnished with words deflected from their original sense ; the geo- metrician will talk of a courtier's zenith , or the eccentrick virtue ...
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... practice of the best authors . IV . The etymologies and derivations , whether from foreign languages or from native roots , are more diligently traced , and more distinctly noted . V. The senses of each word are more copiously ...
... practice of the best authors . IV . The etymologies and derivations , whether from foreign languages or from native roots , are more diligently traced , and more distinctly noted . V. The senses of each word are more copiously ...
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