 | Samuel Johnson - 1768 - Страниц: 1002
...general rule is, to confider thole as the moll elegant fpcakcrs who deviate lead from the written words. There have been many fchemes offered for the emendation...fettlement of our orthography, which, like that of mher nations, being formed by chance, or according to tV.c fancy of the earlied writers in rude ages,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1773 - Страниц: 1164
...lei» from the wtitten wurds. There h ave been many fchem« olFcrcd for the emendation and feulement of our orthography which like that of other nations...formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the «мКеП wiitcrs, in rudetg«, was at firft very various and uncertain, and if yet fufficiently irregular.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - Страниц: 448
...evil. " There have been many schemes offered," says Dr. Johnson, " for the emendation and settlement of our orthography, which, like that of other nations,...formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1812 - Страниц: 808
...least from the written words. There have* been many schemes offered for tlic emendation and settlement of our orthography, which, like that of other nations, being formed by ch.ince, or according to the fancy or the earliest wi itirs in rude ages, was at first very various... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1847 - Страниц: 490
...subject are Dr. Johnson's : " Them have been many schemes offered for the emendation and settlement of our ORTHOGRAPHY, which, like that of other nations, being formed by chanco, or according to the feney of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first тегу various... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1862 - Страниц: 608
...subject are Dr Johnson's : "There have been many schemes offered for the emendation and settlement of our ORTHOGRAPHY, which, like that of other nations,...formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular.... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 596
...shall esteem it a favour : — " There have been many schemes offered for the emendation and settlement of our orthography which, like that of other nations,...formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular.... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - Страниц: 1124
...a century ago, observed, '' There have been many schemes offered for the emendation and settlement of our orthography, which, like that of other nations,...formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and [is] as yet sufficiently... | |
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There have been many schemes offered for the emendation and settlement of our orthography, which like that of other nations, being formed by chance, or according to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain,... 