The Pennsylvania magazine, or, American monthly museum . ait \of my horfe. I bought a fine Mare at the]coffee-houfe and fent my fervant!aforefaid to bring her home.—By |and by comes the worfhipful the JMayor of the city defiring to know Iwhat particular buiinefs I had |with him.—I was confounded \with fhame and had a thoufand a-Jpologies to make. But it would be tedious to re-icount all the blunders, miftakesaand crofs adventures which have arifen to me from the duplicity of*the Enp-lifh tongue. To make a language precife and>2determinate every Thing mouldhave a proper Name, which fhoulddif
The Pennsylvania magazine, or, American monthly museum . ait \of my horfe. I bought a fine Mare at the]coffee-houfe and fent my fervant!aforefaid to bring her home.—By |and by comes the worfhipful the JMayor of the city defiring to know Iwhat particular buiinefs I had |with him.—I was confounded \with fhame and had a thoufand a-Jpologies to make. But it would be tedious to re-icount all the blunders, miftakesaand crofs adventures which have arifen to me from the duplicity of*the Enp-lifh tongue. To make a language precife and>2determinate every Thing mouldhave a proper Name, which fhoulddiffer from all other names as real- |ly as the thing itfelf differs fromall other things. By applying thefame name to different things weare under a hecefiity of addingfome other explanatory word toform a diftindtion, which is atroublefome multiplication ofwords, and a great clog to the lan-guage. Thus, we fay a Bottle-Cra?ie, a Wood-Horfe, a Fi re-Engine, &c.—Would it not bemuch better if each of thefe ma-chines had a name peculiar to it-felf;. /» • t)*e TVnM * yU^ine. ft. )3 •K
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