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1821 in literatureSee also: 1820 in literature, other events of 1821, 1822 in literature, list of years in literature.
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unaffected.--Seneca, Ep. 40.]
"Quis accurat loquitur, nisi qui vult putide loqui?"
["For who studies to speak.html">speak.html">speak accurately, that does not at the same
attracts us to itself. And as in our outward habit, 'tis a ridiculous
fashion; so in language.html">language.html">language, to study new phrases, and to affect.html">affect words that
May I be bound to speak no other language than what is spoken in the
he reprehended Epicurus for his plain way of delivering himself, and the
The imitation of words, by its own facility, immediately disperses itself
those words is of a slower progress. The generality of readers, for
body and inside too, whereas force and sinews are never to be borrowed;
of those I converse with, speak the same language I here write; but
Plato, study fulness and elegancy of speaking; the Lacedaemonians affect
than the fertility of speech; and these are the best. Zeno used to say
curious to learn things, and these were his favourites; the other,
not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so
should be spent in nothing.html">nothing else. I would first understand my own
conversation lies.
No doubt but Greek and Latin are very great ornaments, and of very great
been experimented in my own person, by which they are to be had better
the most precise inquiry that any man could possibly make amongst men of
by them cautioned of this inconvenience then in use, and made to believe.html">believe,
who had them for nothing, was the sole cause we could not arrive to the
Romans. I do not, however, believe that to be the only cause. So it is,
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