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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
A Grammar of the English Language (1818)