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...garret of his Gough Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Drudge | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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