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TnR EscL,su LANGUAGE.

W. xrte much pleased with The FsFnsas of -
Aftiess unlhe English Language in recent NO
"a iAe Dhsiy Dispasch an excellent penay P1F'eft
pnbli:asdEst REehmend City
IT. Flhss il noticing an essay d iae North
BsiKss, Rtrier il This sabject, has SONG vrryPer-
siaets. remarks. he saws, that the Essay Vas yi-
asllfs ht prodaeifoa of nam Or laarniag ard
ssgacsty The author Of ii seeds 10 desire n re-
iarn = she good old words Of the anciFh. English
s,andsia. knd would have all writers sseaew any.
and every word that smacks q foreign Derivation,
Is he :lexil eselsewea Job He admirrs ihg pure
saroas s,rippea of all Latin. Greek, French ar
ItaEiaE MISUNDERSTANDING very irss9- 100,
that easr language when unadorned wiz taese in
trnders "A adorned The most
The Editor rymarks--a Yet te.ata reuFa 10 the
ancienS standard s e4cesdr 81, aifcul be himself
makes strndaniiy elss-e b quotation frota opeof
Mseassayfs Reyisws ID which tha, auther hosds
up BaigaFas iisitnss Progress as model Of pare
Engllsk re quote the passage"
tgk Of Bunyan is deligAtfal 70 every read
eF ant fAralEulle stRdB to every Fusya who
wishca5s1 Eo3faiH wide command over The English
Iaasa1zAS The recEbakary is the reeabafaig n the
Il eonnte gPle There Is nos an ezPresSta1, = &c
exeepk 4Tw f<chaitai Lefns Of LheoiggE which would
puzzle tasyMdea ptfsaRt. We hare ebSerrsdsey efal
than lwk ytia6les yer no writer has said more ca
III be meant @ say For aiagai kssMef, for
Ing M or ~ ~. sE1iSItaa
\ sale I'll tansebwn proper wealth and how Iigtle
n pmas@f f3ved Ny all il las borrowed
\ vi ne Dove extract from that celebrated writer
and ssatlSnap whose style may Be justly regarded
as being 3 pare and classical as il can b. We have
an exeeLssnt example Of The mixed nature On The
languagtfEe speak. The exirac, contains about
one huntSSSd aud seventy words. nm Of which are
italieisea the editor, as being derived from words
of other isnsnases, principally from lbe Latin
We hagefhen, nearly dae-thsld III the words in
these lineS derived from other han saxon origin /
II Nor, issals by any means an ISOLATED iHslahcel
On The coifary We have often noticed il the course
Of readinSAhe bell English authors. and been fdrci
/ bly, siluck with the abundance Of words derived
from oihez languages.
I In BuntS afsP irsrim's Progress which The great
Maeanaytaas 50 highly praised in his abba Review
we have ~ admirable instance Of what The Re-
viewer teIsnninates, lhe old, unp6lluted English
Ilanguageik
4 There f@searcely any work in ihe language, We
presume, Eha, is more1amfiar 70 our readers, than
this rnastesSliece Of the.BBitish TinlerS5
IT empAS icafly embodies every beauty, that we
are in the 4abt Of admiring ID 'hhc standard Au-
ihors ,-iR II are collected the finest specimens Of
prose and etry, tote found any Where. all clothed
ia The subsnity Of Simplteity,
The serS Of Bnnyan's success in writing was
his close stfay Of tie Bible. He had genius, tits
true geaif Of The very highest order, bul he could
neyer hav4swritlen 4his beautiful AllegoFy had he
rot made ~ Book Of all Books, his model
II The sauf may be said Of NJ f. Tunrer whose
writings a5a % deseryedly popular His PToserbiai
| Phiosopb shows in almost every line, that he too
was we'll had ii the Textbook of his professionl
iii Milton lIs1 eaugh, his poetic fire from the same
| halowed ssSuee.
II Bur w " insensiblg straypg from our sp'jFf
Il We verify sJetieve that il were 10 sPeak ana
write Id z u follelsd English rlaaguasewou'd
II bsesery W. Improved. Is simplicity woald IS
H iinereascs 4sse could express qur ideas ID fever
4 words-shIEmany otier good results would BE- the
#5eahsequeaeE
II ltvouiifafofd Us pleasure to consider this sab-
leqt a sg4siter Length, did our limits permit; u
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