 All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must...  Select British Classics - Page 2621803Full view - About this book
 | 1753 - 646 pages
...the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as irn elegantly, improperly and vulgarly as he pleafes, by and' with the authority of one or other of our WORD-BOOKS. IT muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a. ftate of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1772 - 344 pages
...the injudicious reader may fpeak, and write as inelegantly, improperly and vulgarly as he pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our WORD-BOOKS. IT muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a ftate of anarchy; and hitherto, perhaps, it may... | |
 | 1776 - 288 pages
...the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly, as he pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books . It muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a fbite of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may... | |
 | 1786 - 636 pages
...the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly, as he picales, by and with the authority of one or other of our Word-books. It muft be owned, that our langua; is at prefent in a ftate of anarchy } a hitherto, perhaps, it may not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 pages
...in the superior sense of that title. AH words, good and bad, are there jumbled indiscrimi» natelv together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may...with the authority of one or other of our WORD-BOOKS. tatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, Of iny dictator, but, like a modern... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...intend to buy the Dictionary, and who, I suppose, are all those who can afford it." . #ssssasa •• It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of enarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 866 pages
...call theirs, word-books, than dictionaries in the superior sense of that title. All words, good and bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together,...speak, and write, as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgatly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...it, which was puhlished some years ago, seems to me to he proof of it. î î î î î " It must he owned that our language is, at present, in a state...of anarchy, and, hitherto, perhaps, it may not have heen the worse fur it. 'ooo The time for a¡scr¡nOnation* seems to he now come. Toleration, adoption,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 424 pages
...call theirs, word-books, than dictionaries, in the superior sense of that title. All words, good and bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together,...our word-books. It must be owned that our language 5s at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.... | |
 | Alexander Spiers - 1860 - 482 pages
...language, word-books alone, in which "all words, good and bad, are jumbled together indiscriminately, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and...with the authority of one or other of our word-books. " These English word-books thus described became French and English word-books; and such they have... | |
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