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, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... whole power is not accurately delivered , it must be remembered , that while our language is yet living , and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks it , these words are hourly shifting their relations , and can no more be ...
... whole power is not accurately delivered , it must be remembered , that while our language is yet living , and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks it , these words are hourly shifting their relations , and can no more be ...
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... whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the under- taking , than the negligence of the performer . Thus some explanations are un- avoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of ...
... whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the under- taking , than the negligence of the performer . Thus some explanations are un- avoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of ...
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... whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology , and that even a whole life would not be sufficient ; that he whose de- sign includes whatever language can express , must often speak of what he does not understand ; that a writer ...
... whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology , and that even a whole life would not be sufficient ; that he whose de- sign includes whatever language can express , must often speak of what he does not understand ; that a writer ...
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... whole fabrick and scheme of the English language is Gothick or Teutonick : it is a dialect of that tongue , which prevails over all the northern countries of Europe , except those where the Sclavonian is spoken . Of these languages Dr ...
... whole fabrick and scheme of the English language is Gothick or Teutonick : it is a dialect of that tongue , which prevails over all the northern countries of Europe , except those where the Sclavonian is spoken . Of these languages Dr ...
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... whole heaven he closeth in his brest . * This sage then in the starres hath spyed the fates Threatned him death without delay , and , sith , He saw he could not fatall order chaunge , Foreward he prest in battayle , that he might Mete ...
... whole heaven he closeth in his brest . * This sage then in the starres hath spyed the fates Threatned him death without delay , and , sith , He saw he could not fatall order chaunge , Foreward he prest in battayle , that he might Mete ...
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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
Populaire passages
Pagina 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...
Pagina 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.