A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… of the city, but capacity for employments, to several towns in Gaul , Spain and Germany , and other distant parts, as far as Asia ; which brought a great number of foreign pretenders into Rome : the slavish disposition of the … not how far before. The Grecians spread their colonies round all the coasts of Asia Mirnor , even to the Northern parts lying towards the Euxine , in every island of the Ægæan sea, and several others in the Mediterranean; where the … The Chinese have books in their language above two thousand years old, neither have the frequent conquests of the Tartars been able to alter it. The German, Spanish and Italian , have admitted few or no changes for some ages past …
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