Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Influence of Opinions on Language and of Language on Opinions, Which Gained the Prussian Royal Academy's Prize on That Subject It is from the opinions of the people and the point of View, in which objee'ts appear to them, that language receives its form. As literature and politenefs gain ground in a nation, and according to the duration of their reign, they extend their influences in the language, the commonality in fuch times, acquiring the knowledge of feveral expreflions invented by the learned, as on the other hand, the latter not feldom adopt popular ex prefhons. If it be confidered that Greece, and efpecially the city ofathens. 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.