Henry Felton Quote

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling off through disuse.

A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and Forming a Just Style (1709)

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling...

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling...

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling...

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply the place of those words that are continually falling...