| 1755 - 716 sider
...took the fi/ft fur»ey of my undertaking, I fcund our 1'peech co. pious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be difentanglcd, and confufion to be reguUted ; cho.ce was to be made <*it of koundlels variety, without... | |
| Thomas Sheridan - 1762 - 298 sider
...the Englifh Dictionary fays, ' When I took the firft furvey 4 of my undertaking, I found our fpeech copious without order, and ' energetic without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was 4 perplexity to be difentangled, and confufion to be regulated.' This diforder and irregularity of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 sider
...ignorance, and caprices of innovation. When I took the firft furvey of my undertaking, I found our fpeech copious without order, and energetic without rules...wherever I turned my view, there •was perplexity to be difentangled, and confufion to be regulated ; choice was to be made out of boundlefs variety, without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 sider
...Corruptions of Ignorance, and Caprices of Innova£ When When- I took the firft Survey of my Undertake ing, I found our Speech copious without Order, and energetic...wherever I turned my View, there was Perplexity to be difentangled, and Confufion to be regulated ; Choice was to be made out of boundlefs Variety, without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 sider
...Corruptions of Ignorance, and Caprices of Innovation. When I took the firft Survey of my Undertake ing, I found our Speech, copious without Order, and energetic...wherever I turned my View, there was Perplexity to be difentangled, and Confufion to be regulated 5 Choice was to be made out of boundlefs Variety, without... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 sider
...of Ignorance, and .Caprices of Innovation £ Whep When I took the firfl Survey of my Undertak-t ing, I found our Speech copious without Order, and energetic without Rules : wherever 1 turned my View, there was Perplexity to be difentangled, and Confufion to be regulated ; Choice was... | |
| Thomas Sheridan - 1790 - 656 sider
...caprice of innovation. When I took the firft Í iiirvey of my undertaking, I found our ipeech copious f without order, and energetic without rules : wherever I ' turned my view, there was perplexity to be difentangled, 1 and confufion to be regulated.' And Swift, in his letter to Lord Oxford, is of opinion,... | |
| Thomas Sheridan - 1797 - 618 sider
...and daprice of innovation. When I took the firft « furvey of «my undertaking, I found our fpeech copious « without order, and energetic without rules...I , • turned my view, there was perplexity to be difentangled, « and confufion to be regulated.' And Swift, in his letter to lord Oxford, is of opinion,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sider
....ny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules : wherever I turned my view, there « as perplexity to be disentangled, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sider
...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I...speech copious without order, and energetic without rule : wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated... | |
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