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Excerpt from Der Prosastil Samuel Johnson's: Inaugural-Dissertation In seinem Essay: 'life of Sir Thomas Browne' bespricht Johnson dessen Stil mit folgenden Worten: 'his style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages; a mixture of heteroge neous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by vio lence into the service of another. He must, however, he confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction: and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider that he had uncommon sentiments, and was notcontent to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term.' Diese Kritik kann, wenigstens in ihrem ersten Teile, auf Johnson selbst An wendung finden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.