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 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... Bacon's Essays . This mistake was not such as they looked for ; and though the error in form seemed to be con- sented to , yet the substance of the accusation might be still insisted on . Clarendon . Inordinate anxiety , and unnecessary ...
... Bacon's Essays . This mistake was not such as they looked for ; and though the error in form seemed to be con- sented to , yet the substance of the accusation might be still insisted on . Clarendon . Inordinate anxiety , and unnecessary ...
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... Bacon . I'll find about the making of the bed . Shaksp . They mow fern green , and burning of them to ashes , make the ashes up into balls with a little water . Mortimer . 31. TO MAKE away . To kill ; to destroy . He will not let slip ...
... Bacon . I'll find about the making of the bed . Shaksp . They mow fern green , and burning of them to ashes , make the ashes up into balls with a little water . Mortimer . 31. TO MAKE away . To kill ; to destroy . He will not let slip ...
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... Bacon . There made forth to us a small boat , with about eight persons in it . Bacon's New Atlantis . Warily provide , that while we make forth to that which is better , we meet not with that which is worse . Bacon's Essays . A ...
... Bacon . There made forth to us a small boat , with about eight persons in it . Bacon's New Atlantis . Warily provide , that while we make forth to that which is better , we meet not with that which is worse . Bacon's Essays . A ...
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... Bacon . The subject or matter of laws in general is thus far forth constant , which matter is that for the ordering whereof laws were instituted . Hooker . I have words to speak in thy ear will make thee dumb ; yet are they much too ...
... Bacon . The subject or matter of laws in general is thus far forth constant , which matter is that for the ordering whereof laws were instituted . Hooker . I have words to speak in thy ear will make thee dumb ; yet are they much too ...
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... Bacon . Know all , who wou'd pretend to my good Granville . grace , I mortally dislike a damning face . MO'RTAR . N.s. [ mortarium , Lat . mortier , French . ] 1. A strong vessel in which materials are broken by being pounded with a ...
... Bacon . Know all , who wou'd pretend to my good Granville . grace , I mortally dislike a damning face . MO'RTAR . N.s. [ mortarium , Lat . mortier , French . ] 1. A strong vessel in which materials are broken by being pounded with a ...
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Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brorun Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth musick nature ness never night noun o'er optick pass passion peace person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirit stone sweet Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto v. a. mis verb virtue Waller Watts word Wotton