 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...incorporated with the current Speech. There are likewife internal Caufes equally forcible. The Language moft likely to continue long without Alteration, would be that of a Nation raifed a little, and but a little, above Barbarity, fecluded from Strangers, and totally employed in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 páginas
...incorporated with the current Speech. There are likewifeinternal Caufes equally forcible. The Language moft likely to continue long without Alteration, would be that of a Nation raifed a little, and but a little, above Barbarity, fecluded from Strangers, and totally employed in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 páginas
...be at lot incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without alteration would be that of a nation raised n little, and but a littlt, above barbarity, secluded from strangers, and totally employed in procuring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few:... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 596 páginas
...own language, has led Mr. Barrow to think, that Dr. Johnson had the Chinese in his mind when, in the inimitable piece of fine writing which prefaces his...totally employed in procuring the conveniencies of life :" an observation which is perfectly descriptive of that remnant of the Celtic people, whose language... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 páginas
...at last incorporated with the current speech. There are likewise internal causes, equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 páginas
...causes equally forcible. The language most likely to continue long without • •'•: alteration, alteration, would be that of a nation raised a little,...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring tne conveniences of life ; either without -books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 páginas
...at the same time how strictly applicable to the Chinese, is the observation of Dr. Johnson, that ' the language most likely to continue long without...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life.' The grammar of the Chinese written language must, from the unchangeable nature... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 562 páginas
...nt the same time bow strictly applicable to the Chinese, is the observation of Dr. Johnson, that ' the language most likely to continue long without...a nation raised a little, and but a little, above baibanty, secluded from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life.' '1... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 páginas
...(•p'jecli. There are likewise internal causes equal forcible. The language most likely to continoe long without alteration would be that of a nation...from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveoiencies of life ; cither without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few... | |
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... of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same signs. 
