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Excerpt from Remarks on the English Language, in the Manner of Those of Vaugelas on the French: Being a Detection of Many Improper Expressions Used in Conversation, and of Many Others to Be Found in Authors
Such as the work is, it is entirely my own, and no other perfon is acce?'ary to whatever it contains liable to cen fure. Not being acquainted with any man of letters, I have confulted nobody.
It will undoubtedly be thought fimngc, when I declare that I have never yet feen the folio edition of Mr. John fon's dietlonary: but, knowing nobody that has it, I have never been able to borrow it; and I have myfelf no books; at leafl, not many more than what a church-going old woman may be fuppofed to have of devotional ones upon her mantle-piece: for, having always had a narrow in come, it has not been in my power to make a collection without firaitening myfelf. Nor did I ever fee even the Abridgment of this Dietionary till a few days ago, when, obferving it inferred in the catalogue of a Circulating Li brary, where I fubfcribe, I font for it.
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