 My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Seite 144von Hugh Blair - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 Seiten
...of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to Your LORDSHIP, as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Werner Welte - 1985 - 182 Seiten
...of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to Your Lordship, as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in Proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Braj B. Kachru - 1986 - 220 Seiten
...of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to your Lordship, as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Ronald Carter - 1995 - 198 Seiten
...name of all the learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to Your Lordship as First Minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Tony Crowley - 1996 - 228 Seiten
...personal choice, since if the vernacular really had achieved high status, then why does Swift complain that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 Seiten
...corruption: ... I do here, in the name of all the learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain . . . that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | James Milroy, Lesley Milroy - 1999 - 196 Seiten
...name of all the learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to Your Lordship as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...of all the Learned and Polite Persons of the Nation, complain to Your LORDSHIP, as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 Seiten
...Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue to the Lord High Treasurer: I do here . . . complain . . . that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied... | |
 | Susan McKinnon, Sydel Silverman - 2005 - 344 Seiten
...1996: 55). But not everyone could enter this sphere. Tony Crowley cites Jonathan Swift's complaint "that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corruptions; that the Pretenders to polish and refine it have chiefly multiplied... | |
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