 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 394 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 to clear it from co,loquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something he certainly has added... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...improve his native language, by the formation of a more correct and dignified style. " I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence. Where common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarised... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 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 familiarized... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1817 - 432 pages
...UU1XTIL. LIB. X. THE celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, ' I 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have kboured to refine our language to grammatical puritjr, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 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 familiarized... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 422 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 familiarized... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...the final sentence of mankind, I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 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 familiarized... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...none I think will deny that it is stated with equal modesty and truth : " I have laboured," says he, " to refine our language to grammatical purity, and...construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence." Since time, which puts an end to all human pleasures and sorrows, concluded the labours of Johnson,... | |
 | 1823 - 380 pages
...celebrated author of the Rambler in his concluding paper says, ' I have laboured to refine our languagejto grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial...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... | |
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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... 
