 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...being recommended to him, as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his converfation; attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. Milton,...Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijh mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French, required that Elwood Ihould learn and practife the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his converfation ; attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. Milton,...Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijh mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French, required that Elwood fhould learn and pra&ife the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...recom- '?'; mended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his converfation, attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays *,...Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijh mouth is as ill a bearing as Lazy French, required that Elwood fhould learn and practife the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...advantage of his converfation, attended him ever)' afternoon, except on Sundays *. Milton, who, ui his letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijli mouth is as ill a bearing as Lato French, required that Elwood fhould learn and pnctifs the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his converfation, attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. Milton,...letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin tvitb an Englijh mouth is as ill a hearing as Low French, required that Elwood fhould learn and practife... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...being recommended to him, as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his converfation > attended him every afternoon, exCept on Sundays. Milton,...Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijh mouth is as ill a hearing as Law french, required that Elwood fhould learn, and practife the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of his converfation, attended him every afternoon except on Sundays. Milton,...his letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to read Lalin with an Englijb mouth is as ill a bearing as Lazv French, required that Elwood fhould learn and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who woxild read Latin to him, for the advantage of his conversation, attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. IVlilton, who, in his letter to Hart3i!>, had declared, that to read Latin wit?: an Engiish mouth is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the Quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of his conversation,...who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared^ that /* nad Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French, required that Elwood should learn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of his converfation, attended him every afternoon except on Sundays. Milton,...Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an Englijh mouth is as ill a bearing as Law French, required that Elwood fhould learn and practife the... | |
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Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing... 
