 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sayfa
...with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.' Dr. Beattie (Life, p. 243) wrote on Jan. 5, 1778:—' We who live in Scotland are obliged to study English from books, like a dead language, which we understand, but cannot speak.' He adds : — ' I have spent some years in labouring to acquire... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sayfa
...with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.' Dr. Beattie (Life, p. 243) wrote on Jan. 5, 1778:—' We who live in Scotland are obliged to study English from books, like a dead language, which we understand, but cannot speak.' He adds : — ' I have spent some years in labouring to acquire... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 sayfa
...happily surmounted them. " The greatest difficulty in acquiring the art of writing Eng" lish, is one which I have seldom heard our countrymen complain...never sensible of, till I had spent some years in labouiing to «« acquire that art. It is, to give a vernacular cast to the English we write. " I must... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 486 sayfa
...were wholly a foreign tongue. Beattie (Lifeby Forbes, ed. 1824, p. 243) wrote on Jan. 5, 1778 : — ' We who live in Scotland are obliged to study English from books, like a dead language, which we understand but cannot speak.' He adds : — ' I have spent some years in labouring to acquire... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 sayfa
...writing standard English : The greatest difficolty in acquiring the art of writing English, is one which I have seldom heard our countrymen complain...I must explain myself. We who live in Scotland are nbliged to study English from books, like a dead language. Accordingly, when we write, we write it... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 368 sayfa
...happily surmounted them. " The greatest difficulty in acquiring the art of writing Eng" .lish, is one which I have seldom heard our countrymen " complain...give a vernacular cast to the English we write. I bestowed oh their revisal, ancbthe^ attention which it is evidetit, from his critical disqui" explain... | |
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I have seldom heard our countrymen complain of, and which I was never sensible of till I had spent some years in labouring to acquire that art. It is, to give a vernacular cast to the English we write. 