Hidden fields
Books Books
" Latin ; as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would cast no ink without Latin ; or perhaps, as they thought, because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction ... - Page 270
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904
Full view - About this book

Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our Eng7 lish, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the...not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictator)- presumption englished. ; And thus ye have the inventors, and the original of book licensing...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Interspersed with Original Documents, Volume 2

Alexander Stephens - 1813 - 544 pages
...affected the Latin exclusively, in such compositions, and preferring, with Milton, "our English, as the language of men, ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty." A gentleman proposed to him, that something should be added, so as to evince, in this last act, his...
Full view - About this book

An historical and critical account of the lives and writings of James I. and ...

William Harris - 1814 - 518 pages
...as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the atchievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished *." I will conclude this note with the words of a gentleā€¢ Milton's Prose Works, vol. I....
Full view - About this book

An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 2

William Harris - 1814 - 510 pages
...because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an Imprimatur: but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the atchievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption...
Full view - About this book

Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and ..., Volume 3

1814 - 556 pages
...affected the Latm exclusively, in such compositions, and preferring, with Milton, " our English, as the language of men, ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty." A gentleman proposed to him that something should be added, so as to evince, in this last act, his...
Full view - About this book

A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous...letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished. And thus ye have the inventors, and the original of book licensing ripped up, and drawn...
Full view - About this book

Southern Review, Volume 4

1829 - 550 pages
...represented to be. We dare not ex press a doubt in the language we speak, " our English," as Wilton calls it, "the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty." Our ideas of popular government are, thank God, far different from those which Captain Hall avows....
Full view - About this book

The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur; but rather, as I hope, forthat :f 8 =| @D 1 Englished. And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book licensing ripped up and drawn as...
Full view - About this book

Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous...letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished. 15. And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book licensing ripped up and drawn...
Full view - About this book

Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous...achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enough to spell such a dictatory presumption englished. And thus ye have the inventors and the original...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF