A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Bind 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... spirit and vigour of his best days . The publication of his " Lives of the Poets " began in 1779 , and was completed in 1781. In a separate form they compose four volumes octavo ; and have made a most valuable addition to English ...
... spirit and vigour of his best days . The publication of his " Lives of the Poets " began in 1779 , and was completed in 1781. In a separate form they compose four volumes octavo ; and have made a most valuable addition to English ...
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... spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy , let them , instead of compiling gram- mars and dictionaries , endeavour , with all their influence , to stop the licence of translators , whose idleness and ignorance , if it be ...
... spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy , let them , instead of compiling gram- mars and dictionaries , endeavour , with all their influence , to stop the licence of translators , whose idleness and ignorance , if it be ...
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... spirit ; servility ; baseness That this should be termed baseness , abjection of mind , or servility , is it credible ? Hooker . The just medium lies betwixt pride and abjec L'Estrange . tion , the two extremes . A'BJECTLY . adv ...
... spirit ; servility ; baseness That this should be termed baseness , abjection of mind , or servility , is it credible ? Hooker . The just medium lies betwixt pride and abjec L'Estrange . tion , the two extremes . A'BJECTLY . adv ...
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... spirit of God that directed them , to shew us the causes of this disruption , or of this absorption ; this is left to the enquiries of Burnet's Theory of the Earth . To ABSTAIN . v . n . [ abstineo , Lat . ] To forbear ; to deny one's ...
... spirit of God that directed them , to shew us the causes of this disruption , or of this absorption ; this is left to the enquiries of Burnet's Theory of the Earth . To ABSTAIN . v . n . [ abstineo , Lat . ] To forbear ; to deny one's ...
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... spirit of salt , and gently abstracted the whole spirit , there remaineth in the retort a styptical substance . Boyle . 3. To separate ideas . Those who cannot distinguish , compare , and abstract , would hardly be able to understand ...
... spirit of salt , and gently abstracted the whole spirit , there remaineth in the retort a styptical substance . Boyle . 3. To separate ideas . Those who cannot distinguish , compare , and abstract , would hardly be able to understand ...
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Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
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Side 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Side 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Side 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Side 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Side 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Side 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Side 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.