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Excerpt from Doctor Indoctus: Strictures on Professor John Nichol, of Glasgow; With Reference to His English Composition
These pages are published in deference to the suggestion that a misleading example if secure of popular favour, deserves to be combated.
In the course of discussing words and phrases, Lord Macaulay is here appealed to frequently, but with no desire of holding up his authority as law. That his English, taken all in all, admittedly represents the most approved recent usage, is enough for the present purpose of the, critic.
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