 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...education, and the moft confpicuous accomplifhment, is fkill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words and combinations crowd upon his memory ; and haftc and negligence, refineVot. IX. Q ment ment and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...education, and the moft confpicuous accomplifhment, is fkill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words and combinations crowd upon his memory; and hade and negligence, refinement ment and aflectation, will obtrude borrowed tefm* and exotick expreffions.... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...Latin terms and idioms almost without being conscious of it. Johnson justly says, that ' he that has long cultivated another language ' will find its words...haste and negligence, refinement and affectation, will ob' trude borrowed terms and exotic expressions.' Some further apology may be allowed to these writers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...accomplishment, is skill mar cient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will fin its words and combinations crowd upon his memory ; and haste and negligence, r« finement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. , The great pest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...education, and the most conspicuous accomplishment, is skill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words...will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...education, and the most conspicuous accomplishment, is skill in ancient of in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words...will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. , The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...education, and the most conspicuous. accomplishment, is skill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words...refinement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...education, and the most conspicuous accomplishment, is skill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words...refinement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotick expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...mankind, when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse, and unpleasing by unfamiliarity ? tultivated another language, will find its words and combinations...will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...education, and the most conspicuous accomplishment, is skill in ancient or in foreign tongues. He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words...will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into... | |
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He that has long cultivated another language, will find its words and combinations crowd upon his memory; and haste and negligence, refinement and affectation, will obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. 
