 But what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.  The North British Review - Стр. 461869Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - Страниц: 188
...effect on language thus demands some imposed remedy, some way of "fixing our language forever . . . after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite." "For I am of the opinion," Swift continues, "it is better a language should not be wholly perfect,... | |
 | Howard Jackson, Peter Stockwell - 1996 - Страниц: 196
...what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. In the letters pages of newspapers, articles regularly appear that express similar modern attitudes... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - Страниц: 254
...what I have most at Heart, is, that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I am of Opinion, that it is better a Language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should... | |
 | Laura Wright - 2006 - Страниц: 256
...what I have most at Heart, is, that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I am of Opinion, that it is better a Language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Страниц: 604
...what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I am of Opinion, that it is better a Language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - Страниц: 828
...What I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. (1712: 8,31) Thus did Swift lament the imperfections, corruptions, abuses, and absurdities of the vernacular,... | |
 | Howard Jackson - 2002 - Страниц: 218
...what I have most at heart, is that some Method should be thought on for Ascertaining and Fixing our Language for ever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I am of Opinion, that it is better a Language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should... | |
 | Richard J. Watts, Peter Trudgill - 2002 - Страниц: 298
...and Place, and ... some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language forever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. Despite pleas like Swift's, English has never had an official regulatory body, such as those established... | |
 | A.W. Ward - 1967 - Страниц: 484
...the kernel of his proposal is that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever, after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite. For I am of opinion, that it is better a language should not be wholly perfect, than that it should... | |
 | Страниц: 314
...'What I have most at heart is, that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever after such alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.' The true state of the case had been realised by a yet earlier writer, Puttenham, who in his Arte of... | |
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