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" ... of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same signs. "
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equallv forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...little, above barbarity, secluded from strangers, and totallv emploved in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like some of the...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without alterations, would be that of a nation raised a little, and but...little, above barbarity, secluded from strangers, and 10 totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like some of the...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few. Men thus busied and...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few. Men thus busied and...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few. Men thus busied and...
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Der Gedanke einer englischen Sprachakademie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 pages
...Kulturverhältnissen ist noch eine verhältnismäßige Unveränderlichkeit der Sprache gewährleistet. The language most likely to continue long without...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life. Unter dem Eindruck dieser Erkenntnis hat Johnson sein ursprüngliches Ziel aufgegeben. Vernunft und...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 39

1909 - 498 pages
...likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without alterations, would be that of a nation raised a little, and but...totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with every few : men thus busied...
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The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of ...

W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 pages
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniencies oflife; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few:...
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Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire

Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 pages
...the way English society divides classes and labor, which results in a linguistic and semiotic flux. The language most likely to continue long without...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniencies of life; either without books, or ... with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having...
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