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He is, neverthelefs, fenfible, that he has not rejected with fuch fcrupulous nicety, all provincial words, as fome may wifh he had done. Some of thefe he has even knowingly inferted; becaufe he was not fo well acquainted with the language as to have been able to convey his meaning in fuch a determinate or eafy manner without them. This he was likewife, in fome meafure, induced to do, from having frequently obferved, that inexperienced fcribblers, like himfelf, by too ftudioufly avoiding to employ every word that they could not meet with in their Ditionaries, have given to their writings an air of pedantry and affectation that is extremely difgufting; and, which is worfe, by being obliged to employ other words in their ftead, the precife meaning of which they have not been able exactly to learn, they have helped to debafe our language, by in- troducing a vague and indeterminate application of phrafes, which he deems an evil of far greater confe- quence than that which they have endeavoured to fhun. On thefe accounts, he has always employed fuch words as he found conveyed his idea in the eafie{t ma‘aner, with- out being anxioufly folicitous to examine whether they were much in fafhion or not: always taking care, how-

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