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Excerpt from The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public Speakers The English is essentially a living and a growing speech. All the languages of antiquity have had their tender in fancy their passionate youth; their careful maturity; their gradual, though it may be imperceptible, decay, and, finally, their death. 'after death has come the apotheosis of a language, if it has been worthy of such honour - or burial in tthe books, which, like the remains or memorials of ancient heroes, become the sacred treasure of newer ages. All lan. 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.