Easy Phraseology for the Use of Young Ladies who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language

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G. Robinson and T. Cadell, 1775 - 1775 - 424 pages
 

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Page 266 - Johnfon among the greateft geniuflës that the world has ever feen, and that his country will for ever be as proud of him as old Greece was of her Plato.
Page 293 - ... femivowels and mutes, been fo happily blended, and in fuch due proportion, ..to;. conftitute the three great powers of fpeech, melody, harmony, and expreffion. And upon a fair compari:fon it would appear, that the French have emafculated their tongue, by rejecting fuch numbers of their confonants ; and made it refemble .one of their painted courtezans, adorned with fripperies and fallals. That the German, by abounding too much in...

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