 If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3321850Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...instead of compiling graj mars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will redi us to babble a dialect of France. If die changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 pages
...academy is established for the cultivation of our language, let them stop the license of trans-: lators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of French. It is of great consequence that a teacher firmly believes, both the truth and importance of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 pages
...cultivation of our language, ie1 them stop the license of translators ; whose idleness and ignorai ce, it it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of French. It is of great consequence that a teacher firmly believes, both the truth and importance of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...changes much at once ; it alters not the single stones of the building, but the order of the columns. If an academy should be established for the cultivation...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 pages
...to see dependaace multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let then, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour,...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, m in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 pages
...must justify our faith. If an academy is established for the cultivation of our language, let them stop the license of translators, whose idleness and...to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of French. It is of great consequence that a teacher firmly believes, both the truth and importance of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 190 pages
...language, let the members of it stop the license of translators ; whose idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of French. It is of great consequence that a teacher should firmly believe, both the truth and the importance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the licence of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it...proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France. If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in... | |
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