Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; in a Letter To the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain.
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; in a
Letter to the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High
Treasurer of Great Britain.
Jonathan Swift
1st Edition.
Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, Fleetstreet London
1712
Published: 1712
Dr. Swift's
LETTER
To The
Lord High Treasurer.
A
PROPOSAL
for
Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining
the
ENGLISH TONGUE;
in a
LETTER
To the Most Honourable
ROBERT
Earl of Oxfordand Mortimer,
Lord High Treasurer
of
Great Britain.
LONDON:
Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the
Middle Temple Gate, Fleetstree. 1712.
To the Most Honourable
ROBERT Earl of OXFORD, &c.
My Lord,
What I had the Honour of mentioning to Your Lordship some time ago in
Conversation, was not a new Thought, just then started by Accident or Occasion,
but the Result of long Reflection; and I have been confirmed in my Sentiments by the Opinion of some very judicious Persons, with whom I consulted. They all
agreed, That noting would be of greater Use towards the Improvement of Knowledge
and Politeness, than some effectual Method for Correcting, Enlarging, and
Ascertaining our Language; and they think it a Work very possible to be
compassed, under the Protection of a Prince, the Countenance and
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