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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... Clarendon . A labouring man that is given to drunkenness , shall not be rich . Ecclus . That in the night they may be a guard to us , and labour on the day . Nebemiab . As a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon , so he ...
... Clarendon . A labouring man that is given to drunkenness , shall not be rich . Ecclus . That in the night they may be a guard to us , and labour on the day . Nebemiab . As a man had a right to all he could employ his labour upon , so he ...
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... Clarendon . Then land - marks limited to each his right ; For all before was common as the light . Dryden . Though they are not self - evident principles , yet if they have been made out from them by a wary and unquestionable deduction ...
... Clarendon . Then land - marks limited to each his right ; For all before was common as the light . Dryden . Though they are not self - evident principles , yet if they have been made out from them by a wary and unquestionable deduction ...
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... Clarendon . I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education , and say a great many things which have been said before . Felton on the Classics . 5. At LARGE . Without restraint ; with . out confinement . If you ...
... Clarendon . I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education , and say a great many things which have been said before . Felton on the Classics . 5. At LARGE . Without restraint ; with . out confinement . If you ...
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... Clarendon . LEA . n . s . [ ley , Sax . a fallow ; leaz , Sax . a pasture . ] Ground inclosed , not open . Greatly agast with this pitteous plea ; Him rested the good man on the lea . Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas Of wheat ...
... Clarendon . LEA . n . s . [ ley , Sax . a fallow ; leaz , Sax . a pasture . ] Ground inclosed , not open . Greatly agast with this pitteous plea ; Him rested the good man on the lea . Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas Of wheat ...
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... Clarendon , 9. End ; latter part of any assignable time . Churches purged of things burdensome , all was brought at the length unto that wherein we now stand . Hooker . A crooked stick is not straitened , unless it be bent as far on the ...
... Clarendon , 9. End ; latter part of any assignable time . Churches purged of things burdensome , all was brought at the length unto that wherein we now stand . Hooker . A crooked stick is not straitened , unless it be bent as far on the ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison Æneid Ainsworth Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Ben Jonson Bentley bird blood body Boyle Brown called cause church chyle Clarendon colour death Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth Ecclesiasticus eyes fair Fairy Queen father fire French give Glanville hand hast hath heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour laid land Latin leave light live Locke look loose lord low Latin Maccabees matter means Milt Milton mind Mortimer motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain 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 Waller Watts word Wotton young