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, Nide 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... ancient prophecy in Latin monkish rhymes , with an explanation . For , some years longer , Johnson's literary exertions are scarcely to be traced except in the Gen- tleman's Magazine . For that miscellany he composed several biogra ...
... ancient prophecy in Latin monkish rhymes , with an explanation . For , some years longer , Johnson's literary exertions are scarcely to be traced except in the Gen- tleman's Magazine . For that miscellany he composed several biogra ...
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... ancient tongues , have neglected those in which our words are commonly to be sought . Thus Ham- mond writes fecibleness for feasibleness , because I suppose he imagined it derived im- mediately from the Latin ; and some words , such as ...
... ancient tongues , have neglected those in which our words are commonly to be sought . Thus Ham- mond writes fecibleness for feasibleness , because I suppose he imagined it derived im- mediately from the Latin ; and some words , such as ...
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... ancient and remoter dialects only by occasional inspection into dic- tionaries ; but the learning of Junius is often of no other use than to show him a track by which he might deviate from his purpose , to which Skinner always presses ...
... ancient and remoter dialects only by occasional inspection into dic- tionaries ; but the learning of Junius is often of no other use than to show him a track by which he might deviate from his purpose , to which Skinner always presses ...
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... ancient volumes the groundwork of style , admitting among the additions of later times , only such as may supply real deficiencies , such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms ...
... ancient volumes the groundwork of style , admitting among the additions of later times , only such as may supply real deficiencies , such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms ...
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... ancient dialect now to be found in the Teutonick race ; and the Saxon , which is the original of the present English , was either derived from it , or both have descended from some common parent . What was the form of the Saxon language ...
... ancient dialect now to be found in the Teutonick race ; and the Saxon , which is the original of the present English , was either derived from it , or both have descended from some common parent . What was the form of the Saxon language ...
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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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Sivu 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...
Sivu 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.