A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
… only of ignorance and caprice. I have never known this great town 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 … mistaken, if many of these false refinements among us do not arise from a principle, which would quite destroy their credit, if it were well understood and considered. For I am afraid, my lord, that with all the real good qualities of our …
Corruption | Eloquence
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