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Excerpt from The Distinction Between Words Esteemed Synonymous in the English Language, Pointed Out, and the Proper Choice of Them Determined: Useful to All Who Would Either Write or Speak With Propriety and Elegance
Some part of this work is a tranflation from the French of the Abb� Gerard, at leafi (0 much as would agree with our mode of exprcmon the re? the Reader will find to be new. Should any one. Imagine, becaufe fome words which are here claff ed as pa?ing for fynonymous, do not immediately. ?rike the mind as fuch; that labouring at a dif tin�tion was unneceffary and ufelefs if he cannot. Recolle�t a paffage where he has feen, or call to. Mind that he has at any time heard them iodiferi minately ufed, let him caft his eye over: the folio. Edition of John fon's di�tionary, and he will inflantly. Difcover that thefe endeavours, though perhaps ih adequate to the talk, have not been wholly fruit lers; and, fhould the fame error he remarked im the following pages which the tenor of the work. Condemns, it is hoped it will be attributed. To the neceflity of varying the expreflions, in a. Treatife of this particular call, in order to make them agreeable to the mind. There are, it mull. He confeffed, many more words that might have been taken under confideration; but, on reflec'tion. That a thorough reform, even in thefe at prefent taken notice df, will go a confiderable way to wards-the improvement of our tongue, the work cannot but be thought of fervice 5 at leaft it may.
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