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The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen, and Public Speakers

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The Lost Beauties of the English Language: an Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public Speakers - MacKay, Charles 1814-1889
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Excerpt from The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public Speakers The English is essentially a living and a growing speech. All the languages of antiquity have had their tender in fancy their passionate youth; their careful maturity; their gradual, though it may be imperceptible, decay, and, finally, their death. 'after death has come the apotheosis of a language, if it has been worthy of such honour - or burial in tthe books, which, like the remains or memorials of ancient ...

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