 | James Mason Hoppin - Clergy - 1869 - 650 pages
...fewest have doen. Some seek so far for outlandish English that they forget altogether their mother language. And I dare swear this: if some of their...yet these fine English clerks will say they speak their mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journied... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 pages
...done. Some seek so far foir outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother-language. And I dare swear this, if some of their mothers were...them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far-journied gentlemen, at then- return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother-language. And I dare swear this, if some of their mothers were...them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far-journied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go in foreign apparel, so they will... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1874 - 368 pages
...careless ; using our speech as most men do, and ordering our wits as the fewest have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether...clerks will say they speak in their mother tongue, 1f a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English." Gill in his Logonomia Anglica,... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1875 - 312 pages
...careless; using our speech as most men do, and ordering our wits as the fewest have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether...charge them with counterfeiting the king's English." Gill in his Lagonomia Anglica, published in 1619, thus notices what he calls the " new mange in our... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1875 - 272 pages
...careless ; using our speech as most men do, and ordering our wits as the fewest have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether...alive they were not able to tell what they say, and j-et these fine English clerks will say they speak in their mother tongue, if a man should charge them... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - English language - 1877 - 366 pages
...careless; using our speech as most men do and ordering our wits as the fewest have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English that they forget altogether...tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting 104 tha King's English. Some far jonrnied gentlemen, at their return home, like as they love to go... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...using our speech as most men do, and ordering our wits na the fewest have done. Some neck so far tor outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother's language. And I dare swear this, il some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell what they say, arid yet these fine... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - Church group work - 1881 - 842 pages
...fewest have done. Some seek so far for outlandish English that they forget altogether their mother language. And I dare swear this : if some of their...yet these fine English clerks will say they speak their mother tongue, if a man should charge them with counterfeiting the king's English. Some far journeyed... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...1553, a System of lilulorie and I^gie. In urging greater simplicity of style, he says: "Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother's language. And I dare swear this, that, if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell what they say. The unlearned... | |
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Some seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether their mother's language. And I dare swear this, if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell what they say... 
