Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Influence of Opinions on Language and of Language on Opinions, Which Gained the Prussian Royal Academy's Prize on That Subject
It is from the opinions of the people and the point of View, in which objeé'ts appear to them, that language receives its form. As literature and politenefs gain ground in a nation, and according to the duration of their reign, they extend their influences in the language, the commonality in fuch times, acquiring the knowledge of feveral expreflions invented by the learned, as on the other hand, the latter not feldom adopt popular ex prefhons. If it be confidered that Greece, and efpecially the city ofathens.
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