A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… orators: their giving not only the freedom 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 … 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 The other languages of Europe I know nothing … whom we are descended, and whose languages labour all under the same defect. For it is worthy our observation, that the Spaniards , the French , and the Italians although derived from the same northern ancestors with ourselves, are with …
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