A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… without one or more dunces of figure, who had credit enough to give rise to some new word, and propagate it in most conversations though it had neither humour nor significancy. If it struck the present taste, it was soon transferred into … that since they have been left out of all meetings, except parties at play, or where worse designs are carried on, our conversation hath very much degenerated. … "... the French for these last fifty years hath been polishing as much as it …
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