 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...were unfixed by any vifible Signs, muft have been fpoken with great Diverfity, as we now obferve thofe who cannot read to catch Sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous Jargon was firft reduced to an Alphabet, every Penman endeavoured to exprefs, as he could, the Sounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...necessary or coin r. . use were spoken before they were written ; and while- they were unfixed by ai visible signs, must have been spoken with great diversity, as we now observe the who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. Whi this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written ; and, while they were unfixed by any...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written; and while they were unfixed by any visible...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...unfixed by any visible signs, mast have been spoken with great diversity, as we now observe 'those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous jargon was first reduced to an alphabet, every penman endeavoured to express, as he could, the sounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written ; and while they were unfixed by any...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written ; and while they were unfixed by any...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written ; and while they were unfixed by any...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written ; and while they were unfixed by any...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read to catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken, before they were written; and while they were unfixed by any visible...spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those, who cannot read, catch sounds imperfectly, and utter them negligently. When this wild and barbarous... | |
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As language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary or common use were spoken before they were written; and while they were unfixed by any visible signs, must have been spoken with great diversity, as we now observe those who cannot read... 
