These many and very different Sources of our Language may be the cause, why it is so deficient in _Regularity_ and _Analogy_.

Yet we have this advantage to compensate the defect, that what we want in _Elegance_, we gain in _Copiousness_, in which last respect few Languages will be found superior to our own."-- JAMES HARRIS: _Hermes_, Book iii, Ch.

v, p.

408.
16.

_Reign of George I, 1727 back to 1714 .-- Example written about 1718_.
"There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages, when they are compared with the Oriental forms of speech: and it happens very luckily, that the Hebrew idioms ran into the English tongue, with a particular grace and beauty.