Letters, Sentences and MaximsChesterfield Society, 1991 - 348 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 74
... words which are not really words . This is not all ; for not to speak ill , is not sufficient ; we must speak well ; and the best method of attaining to that , is to read the best authors with attention ; and to ob- serve how people of ...
... words which are not really words . This is not all ; for not to speak ill , is not sufficient ; we must speak well ; and the best method of attaining to that , is to read the best authors with attention ; and to ob- serve how people of ...
Σελίδα 131
... words congeal'd in northern air , " to a vulgar notion , that in Greenland words were frozen in their utterance , and that upon a thaw a very mixed conversation was heard in the air of all those words set at liberty . [ Jan. 29 , 1748 ...
... words congeal'd in northern air , " to a vulgar notion , that in Greenland words were frozen in their utterance , and that upon a thaw a very mixed conversation was heard in the air of all those words set at liberty . [ Jan. 29 , 1748 ...
Σελίδα 169
... words and the cant of low characters , which are to be met with nowhere else . He will rather use olli than illi , optumè than optimè , and any bad word , rather than any good one , provided he can but prove that , strictly speaking ...
... words and the cant of low characters , which are to be met with nowhere else . He will rather use olli than illi , optumè than optimè , and any bad word , rather than any good one , provided he can but prove that , strictly speaking ...
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