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... ignorant man , who takes no thought of his parts of speech . It is from the man who knows just enough to be anxious to square his sentences by the line and plummet of grammar and dictionary that his mother tongue suffers most grievous ...
... ignorant man , who takes no thought of his parts of speech . It is from the man who knows just enough to be anxious to square his sentences by the line and plummet of grammar and dictionary that his mother tongue suffers most grievous ...
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... ignorance , as eyther of some singular pride in themselves , or some speciall malice of other , or for some private and parciall matter , either in Religion or other kynde of learning . For good and choice meates , be no more requisite ...
... ignorance , as eyther of some singular pride in themselves , or some speciall malice of other , or for some private and parciall matter , either in Religion or other kynde of learning . For good and choice meates , be no more requisite ...
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... ignorance and aggressive vulgarity . It may be reasonably doubted whether there ever was a pure language two generations old ; that is , a language homogeneous , of but one element . All tongues known to philology show , if not the min ...
... ignorance and aggressive vulgarity . It may be reasonably doubted whether there ever was a pure language two generations old ; that is , a language homogeneous , of but one element . All tongues known to philology show , if not the min ...
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... ignorant and degraded society , no rightful protest against its mean and monstrous colloquial phrases , which , indeed , would then be neither mean nor monstrous ; the fact that they were in use being their full justifica- tion . The ...
... ignorant and degraded society , no rightful protest against its mean and monstrous colloquial phrases , which , indeed , would then be neither mean nor monstrous ; the fact that they were in use being their full justifica- tion . The ...
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... ignorance . Language must always be made by the mass of those who use it ; but when that mass is misled by a little learn- ing , a dangerous thing only as edge tools are dangerous to those who will handle them with- out understanding ...
... ignorance . Language must always be made by the mass of those who use it ; but when that mass is misled by a little learn- ing , a dangerous thing only as edge tools are dangerous to those who will handle them with- out understanding ...
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absurd action adjective American Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language authority auxiliary verb British called Chaucer common compound criticism dative dictionary distinction educated England English language etymology example existence express fact feminine following passage French gender give grammar grammarians Greek guage heard hundred idiom ignorance inflection instance Johnson lady Latin Latin language learned letter lish meaning meant merely misuse newspapers noun object participle passive passive voice perfect person perversion phrase possessive predicate present preterite pronoun proves the rule puellam question readers reason RICHARD GRANT WHITE risum sense sentence simple singular speak speakers speech stand-point style substantive superfluous sure tence tense thing thou thought tion tongue total depravity transitive verb transpire usage verb verbal verbal noun voice Webster's Dictionary woman word worth writers written