 English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is 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 English phrase, and the English pronunciation,...  Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal - Page 17by Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...other wall. Such opportunities of valiety it is judicious not to neglect. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious and the vain, all cultivate the English,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...with women of elegance, which, perhaps, disclaims a pedant-s praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their...likely to become, in half a century, provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitions, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...or with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their...century provincial and rustick, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...with women of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. , The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English ; their...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...or with womea of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...or with womea of elegance, which perhaps disclaims a pedant's praise. The conversation of the Scots grows every day less unpleasing to the English; their...likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious, and the vain, all cultivate the... | |
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