English language - Early works to 1800

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Reasons for an English education , by teaching the youth of both sexes the arts of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and logic. In their own mother-tongue.
Brightland, John, d. 1717.Date: 1711
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Tales, epistles, odes, fables, &c. With translations from Homer and other antient authors. To which are added Proposals for perfecting the English language
Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756.Date: M.DCCXXIX. [1729]
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A letter to James Boswell, Esq. With some remarks on Johnson's Dictionary, and on language, &c.
Date: 1792
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Lexiphanes : a dialogue, imitated from Lucian, and suited to the present times : being an attempt to restore the English tongue to its ancient purity, and to correct as well as expose the affected style, hard words, and absurd phraseology of many late writers, and particularly of our English Lexiphanes, the Rambler.
Campbell, Archibald, 1726?-1780.Date: [1783]
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Elements of the critical philosophy : containing a concise account of its origin and tendency : a view of all the works published by its founder, Professor Immanuel Kant : and a glossary for the explanation of terms and phrases : to which are added, three philological essays, chiefly translated from the German of John Christopher Adelung, aulic counsellor and first librarian to the elector of Saxony / by A.F.M. Willich, M.D.
Anthony Florian Madinger WillichDate: 1798