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Graces and Beauties, and I am not against any real Improvement of our own Language from that or any other; but we are always so foolish, or unfortunate, as never to make any Advantage of our Neighbours. We affect Nothing of theirs, but what is silly and ridiculous; and by neglecting the substantial Use of their Language, we only enervate, and spoil our own.
Languages, like our Bodies, are in a perpetual Flux, and stand in need of Recruits to supply the Place of those Words that are continually falling off thro' Disuse; and since it is so, my Lord, I think 'tis better to
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