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Identifier: pennsylvaniamaga11775phil (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania magazine, or, American monthly museum
Year: 1775 (1770s)
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Publisher: (Philadelphia : R. Aitken)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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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;
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v.1Jan-Dec 1775
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  • bookid:pennsylvaniamaga11775phil
  • bookyear:1775
  • bookdecade:1770
  • bookcentury:1700
  • bookpublisher:_Philadelphia___R__Aitken_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
  • booksponsor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
  • bookleafnumber:490
  • bookcollection:university_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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