A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… many reasons for the corruptions of the last: as, the change of their government to a tyranny, which ruined the study of eloquence, there being no further use or encouragement for popular orators: their giving not only the freedom of the … a great number of foreign pretenders into Rome : the slavish disposition of the senate and people, by which the wit and eloquence of the age were wholly turned into panegyrick, the most barren of all subjects: the great corruption of … late authors to introduce and multiply cant words, which is the most ruinous corruption in any language." … Corruption … Eloquence … Text taken from Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue …
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