 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation ; single... | |
 | Vedeha (Thera) - 1852 - 560 pagina’s
...led into it unconsciously; thus adding one more instance to the truth of Dr. Johnson's remark, that " no book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom."* If, however, I have at all made myself intelligible in conveying the... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1855 - 428 pagina’s
...themselves in translating it. ' The great pest of speech,' says Johnson, ' is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom.' But the extent to which this importation of French words was carried... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pagina’s
...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation ; single... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pagina’s
...tyranny of time and fashion, and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance and caprices of innovation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation ; single... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pagina’s
...obtrude borrowed terms and exotic expressions. The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation; single words... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pagina’s
...tyranny of time and fashion ; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance, and caprices of innovation. Dr. Buckland did not scruple to inform the world that something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation: single words... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pagina’s
...corrupted. Henca it is, that Dr. Johnson avers, " The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation." — Preface... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pagina’s
...tyranny of time and fashion; and exposed to the corruptions of ignorance and caprices of innovation. he heart, something of its native idiom ; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation; single words... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pagina’s
...aud Pope. FROM THE PREFACE TO THE DICTIONARY. The great pest ' of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom.2 This is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation ; single... | |
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The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom... 
