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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... Raleigh's Es . The lawless tyrant , who denies To know their God , or message to regard , Must be compelled . Milton . Orpheus did not , as poets feign , tame savage beasts , But men as lazuless , and as wild as they . Roscom . Not the ...
... Raleigh's Es . The lawless tyrant , who denies To know their God , or message to regard , Must be compelled . Milton . Orpheus did not , as poets feign , tame savage beasts , But men as lazuless , and as wild as they . Roscom . Not the ...
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... Raleigh . 31. To LAY apart . To reject ; to put away . Lay apart all filthiness . James . 32. To LAY aside . To put away ; not to retain . Hebrews . Waller . Let us lay aside every weight , and the sin which doth so easily beset us ...
... Raleigh . 31. To LAY apart . To reject ; to put away . Lay apart all filthiness . James . 32. To LAY aside . To put away ; not to retain . Hebrews . Waller . Let us lay aside every weight , and the sin which doth so easily beset us ...
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... Raleigh . weathers . The Hollauders were before Dunkirk with the wind at north - west , making a lee shore in all Raleigh . Unprovided of tackling and victualling , they are forced to sea by a storm ; yet better do so than veuture ...
... Raleigh . weathers . The Hollauders were before Dunkirk with the wind at north - west , making a lee shore in all Raleigh . Unprovided of tackling and victualling , they are forced to sea by a storm ; yet better do so than veuture ...
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... Raleigh . This bubble , by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that encloses it , would ascend to the top . Bentley . 2. Inconstancy ; changeableness . They every day broached some new thing ; which restlesslevity they did ...
... Raleigh . This bubble , by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that encloses it , would ascend to the top . Bentley . 2. Inconstancy ; changeableness . They every day broached some new thing ; which restlesslevity they did ...
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... Raleigh . This custom has been always looked upon , by the wisest men , as an effect of licentiousness , and not of liberty . Swift . During the greatest licentiousness of the press , the character of the queen was insulted . Swift ...
... Raleigh . This custom has been always looked upon , by the wisest men , as an effect of licentiousness , and not of liberty . Swift . During the greatest licentiousness of the press , the character of the queen was insulted . Swift ...
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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