 | 1754 - 714 sivua
...winnowing (I borrow this image from the Italian erufcj) purifying, and finally, fixing our /...';, than dictionaries in the fuperior fenfe of that title....and write as inelegantly, improperly and vulgarly at he pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our •wcrj-tt.oki. It muft be owned, that... | |
 | 1753 - 646 sivua
...our neighbours the Dutch and the Q^ruians call theirs, WO&D-EOQKS, than dictionaries in the iuperior fenfe of that title. All words, good and bad, are there jumbled indifcriminately together, in.fo.rn.uch, that the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as irn elegantly, improperly and vulgarly... | |
 | 1776 - 288 sivua
...fenfe of that title. All words, good and bad, aie there jumbled indifcriminately together, iufomuch that the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as...muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a fbite of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worfe for it. During our free and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 sivua
...prefent being more properly, what our neighbours the Dutch and the Germans call theirs, word-books, than dictionaries in the fuperior fenfe of that title....pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-hooks. It muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a ftate of anarchy \ and hitherto,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 sivua
...and bad, are there jumbled indi(criminatcly together, infomuch that the injudicious reader may (peak, and write, as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly,...pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-hooks. It muSt be owned that our language is at prefrns in a State of anarchy ¿ and hitherto,... | |
 | 1786 - 636 sivua
...and the Germans call theirs, Word-books, than dictionaries in th» fupeiior fenfe of that title. AH words» good and bad, are there jumbled indifcriminately...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;... | |
 | 1753 - 640 sivua
...indifcriminately together, wfomuch that the injudicious reader may fpeak and write as inT elegantly, improperly and vulgarly as he pleafes, by and with the authority of one or other of our WOXD-BOOKS. IT muft be owned that our language is at prefent in a ftate of anarchy; and hitherto, perhaps,... | |
 | 1803 - 318 sivua
...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 be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 sivua
...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. tatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, Of iny dictator, but, like a modern... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 412 sivua
...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 be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy; and hitherto, perhaps, it may... | |
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... by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. 
