And I would fain have any one name to me that tongue, that any one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well,... Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man, Or, A New and ... - Page xxxii by Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1804 Full view -
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