 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 pages
...and it is with truth he observes of his Humbler, " that he had laboured to refine our language t,. grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations, and that he has added to the elegance of its construction, and to the harmony of its cadence." This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...QUINTIL. LIB. X. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his con. eluding paper says, ' 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.' I hope our language hath gained all the profit, which the labours of this meritorious writer were exerted... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pages
...QUINTIL. LIB. X. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his con. eluding paper says, ' I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms,licentious idioms and irregular combinations : something perhaps I have added to the elegance... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 320 pages
...laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarism^, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something,...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarised... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...accumulated in this work a treasure of moral science, which will not be soon exhausted. He has laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something he certainly has added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence*.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...passions, what nation can bring forward greater names than those of Richardson, Fielding^ and Smollet; and yet, strange as it may appear, to their style...speaking in this place, solely of his novels ; the diction in his " History of England" is of another cast; he has there laboured to attain harmony of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...passions, what nation can bring forward greater names than those of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollet; and yet, strange as it may appear, to their style...speaking in this place, solely of his novels ; the 'diction in his " History of England" -is of another cnst; he has there laboured to attain harmony... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of Us construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When common words were less pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, 1 have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. When... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. _When common words were less pleasing to the ear, -or less distinct in their signification, I have... | |
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I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony... 
