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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 283
by Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 pages
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Volumes 1-2

Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pages
...converfation of the Scots. grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englifh ; their peculiarities wear faft away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 pages
...away; their dialectis likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Engli/h phrafe, and the Engli/h pronunciation, and in fplendid companies Scotch is not much heard,...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...converfation of the Scots grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englijh; their peculiarities wear falt away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to themfelves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...converfation of the Scots grows every day lefs unpleafing to the Englijh ; their peculiarities wear faft away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and ruftick, even to them* felves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...their dialect is likely to become in half half a century provincial and ruftick, even to them* felves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Englijh phrafe, and the Englijh pronunciation, and in fplendid companies Scotch is not much heard,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day loss unpleasing to the English ; their peculiarities wear...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the...
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The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which, perhaps, disclaims a pedant-s praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitions, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase arld the English pronunciation, and in splendid...
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Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. , The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half half a century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and...
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Works, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...advancement from my commemoration, or with womea of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less...learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the Englinh phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard,...
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