A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… first, from the days of Romulus to those of Julius Cæsar , suffered perpetual changes : and by what we meet in those authors who occasionally speak on that subject, as well as from certain fragments of old laws, it is manifest that the … as it will bear, and appears to be declining by the natural inconstancy of that people, and the affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words, which is the most ruinous corruption in any language. La Bruyere a late … some other state; and even then our best writings might probably be preserved with care, and grow into esteem, and the authors have a chance for immortality. But without such great revolutions as these (to which we are, I think, less …
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