Reflections On Dr Swift S Letter To Harley 1712 And The British

Which may very well be introduc’d as often as one has occasion to speak of the late _Examiner_, or any one that belongs to him. Let this Learned Doctor and his new Academy do th...

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There has been lately form’d here _a Society to Reward and Encourage Merit, with respect to the Liberal Arts and Sciences_. It is to be composed of 21 Members, of which Number t...

The merriest part of the Project he has been hatching, for an _English_ Academy to bring our Tongue to his pitch of Perfection, is that he has assign’d, that Task to the _Tories...

+Horace+, who tells us in his Epistle +de arte Poetica+, that Present Use is the final Judge of Language, (the Verse is too well known to need quoting) Words going off and peris...