A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… least the purity of the Greek tongue may be allowed to last and we know 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 … several others in the Mediterranean; where the language was preserved entire for many ages, after they themselves became colonies, to Rome , and till they were over-run by the barbarous nations upon the fall of that Empire. The Chinese …
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