 | Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 374 pages
...Time. But the Englijh Tongue is not arrived to fuch a Degree of Perfection, as, upon that Account, to make us apprehend any Thoughts of its Decay : And...to a certain Standard, perhaps there might be Ways to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we are invaded, and made a Conqueft by fome other State ; And... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 342 pages
...Time. But the Englijh Tongue is not arrived to fuch a Degree of Perfection, as, upon that Account, to make us apprehend any Thoughts of its Decay: And if...to a certain Standard, perhaps there might be Ways to fix it for ever, or at leaft until we are invaded, and made a Conqueft by fome other State : And... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 356 pages
...Time. But the Englijh Tongue is not arrived to fuch, a Degree of Perfection, as, upon that account, to make us apprehend any Thoughts of its Decay : And,...to a certain Standard, perhaps, there might be Ways to fix it for ever, or at leaft until we are invaded, and made a Conqueft by fome other State : And... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 440 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But thzEngliJh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain ftandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we are invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 416 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But the Englifh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain ftandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we are invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1761 - 412 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But the Englifh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain Itandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we were invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 448 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But the Rnglijh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain ftandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we arc invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 382 pages
...narics before his time. But the Englifh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to^ make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain ftandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we were invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But the Englifh tongue is not arrived to fuch a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and if it were once refined to a certain ftandard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at leaft till we are invaded... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...dictionaries before his time. But the English tongue is not arrived to such a degree of perfection, as to make us apprehend any thoughts of its decay ; and...certain standard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at least till we are invaded and made a conquest-}- by some other state... | |
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... if it were once refined to a certain standard, perhaps there might be ways found out to fix it for ever, or at least till we are invaded and made a conquest by some other state... 
