A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… brought a great number of foreign pretenders into Rome : the slavish disposition of the senate and people, by which the wit and eloquence of the age were wholly turned into panegyrick, the most barren of all subjects: the great corruption of manners, and introduction of foreign luxury, with foreign terms to express it, with several others, that might be assigned; not to mention those invasions from the Goths and Vandals which are too …
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