 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 páginas
...to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers some...have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 páginas
...to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model,... | |
 | Gregor von Feinaigle - 1813 - 516 páginas
...one concise view. the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular : of these reformers some...have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow ; to take that for a model... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1854 - 514 páginas
...the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and iH Jot sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers, some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that it is to measure by a ahadow, to take that for a model... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1862 - 608 páginas
...to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers, some...have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that it is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model... | |
 | 1879 - 596 páginas
...to the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and is yet sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers some...have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that it is to measure by a shadow to take that for a model or... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 páginas
...the fancy of the earliest writers in rude ages, was at first very various and uncertain, and [is] as yet sufficiently irregular. Of these reformers some...have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 páginas
...against a purely phonetic spelling have never been more effectively expressed than in Johnson's words: "Some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography...considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model which is changing while they apply it." The literary products of the best writers,... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 páginas
...against a purely phonetic spelling have never been more effectively expressed than in Johnson's words: "Some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography...considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model which is changing while they apply it." The literary products of the best writers,... | |
 | Nicholas Hudson - 1994 - 250 páginas
...orthography so that it perfectly reflected speech were, moreover, fundamentally misguided. They had 'endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to...considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model or standard which is changing while they apply it'.32 Pronunciation was too mutable... | |
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Of these reformers some have endeavoured to accommodate orthography better to the pronunciation, without considering that this is to measure by a shadow, to take that for a model or standard which is changing while they apply it. 