A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… that they may set out in to the world with some foundation of literature, in order to qualify them for patterns of politeness. The consequence of this defect upon our language may appear from the plays, and other compositions written … young men at the universities, terribly possessed with the fear of pedantry, run into a worse extreme, and think all politeness to consist in reading the daily trash sent down to them from hence; this they call knowing the world, and …
Corruption | Eloquence
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