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" From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge... "
Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 2
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 472 pages
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 432 pages
...incorporate easily with our native idioms. " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...extracted from Hooker, and the translation of the Bible j the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation, from Raleigh...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...

Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, ami navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction...
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Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the First

Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...of style, expression's every grace, Each elegance of speech, 'tis his to trace ; beth," says he, " a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use, and of elegance. If the language of Theology were extracted from Hooker, and ihe translation of thf Bible...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Rakigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...boundary, beyond which 1 make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...boundary, beyond which I make few excursions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...tjoundary, beyond which I make few excur-, sions. From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes...from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
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The Atlantic Magazine, Volume 1

1824 - 494 pages
...the authors who rose in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, ' from whom,' in the powerful language of Dr. Johnson, ' a speech might be formed, adequate to all...from Spenser and Sidney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare ; few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words in which they...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History: Delivered in the ..., Volume 6

George Miller - History - 1824 - 546 pages
...interesting period, that Johnson * has declared his opinion, that from the authors which rose in her time, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. Nor should we forget, that to her protecting care, extended to this countiy, then sunk in barbarism,...
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