A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is prefixed, an English grammar. To this ed. are added, a history of the English language [&c.].1768 |
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... lefs dif- ferent , as books are multiplied ; and from this arbitrary reprefentation of founds by letters , proceeds that diverfity of spelling obfervable in the Saxon remains , and I fuppofe in the first book of every nation , which ...
... lefs dif- ferent , as books are multiplied ; and from this arbitrary reprefentation of founds by letters , proceeds that diverfity of spelling obfervable in the Saxon remains , and I fuppofe in the first book of every nation , which ...
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... lefs ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate thofe changes , which will again be changed , while ...
... lefs ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate thofe changes , which will again be changed , while ...
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... lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained , and fuch terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by fup- pofing fomething intuitively known , and evident without proof , fo nothing can be defined but by the ...
... lefs abftrufe than that which is to be explained , and fuch terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by fup- pofing fomething intuitively known , and evident without proof , fo nothing can be defined but by the ...
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... lefs fcrupu- loufnefs than those which are to teach their structures and relations , My purpofe was to admit no teftimony of living authors , that I might not be mifled by partiality , and that none of my contemporaries might have ...
... lefs fcrupu- loufnefs than those which are to teach their structures and relations , My purpofe was to admit no teftimony of living authors , that I might not be mifled by partiality , and that none of my contemporaries might have ...
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... lefs re- mote from the orthography , and lefs liable to capricious innovation . They have however ge- nerally formed their tables according to the curfory . fpeech of thofe with whom they hap- pened to converfe ; and concluding that the ...
... lefs re- mote from the orthography , and lefs liable to capricious innovation . They have however ge- nerally formed their tables according to the curfory . fpeech of thofe with whom they hap- pened to converfe ; and concluding that the ...
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