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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... Tillotson . Neglect the rules each verbal critick lays , For net to know some trifles is a praise . Pope . 28. To exhibit ; to offer . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he which is accused have ...
... Tillotson . Neglect the rules each verbal critick lays , For net to know some trifles is a praise . Pope . 28. To exhibit ; to offer . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he which is accused have ...
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... Tillotson . 12. To permit without interpofition . Whether Esau were a vassal , I leave the rea- der to judge . Locke . 13. To cease to do ; to desist from . 1 Samuel . Let us return , lest my father leave caring for the asses , and take ...
... Tillotson . 12. To permit without interpofition . Whether Esau were a vassal , I leave the rea- der to judge . Locke . 13. To cease to do ; to desist from . 1 Samuel . Let us return , lest my father leave caring for the asses , and take ...
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... Tillotson . 3. Having no gradations of superiority . Be level in preferments , and you will soon be as level in your learning . Bentley . To LE'VEL . v . a . [ trom the adjective . ) 1. To make even ; to free from inequa- lities : as ...
... Tillotson . 3. Having no gradations of superiority . Be level in preferments , and you will soon be as level in your learning . Bentley . To LE'VEL . v . a . [ trom the adjective . ) 1. To make even ; to free from inequa- lities : as ...
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... from this fine sentence . Tillotson . As a man should always be upon his guard against the vices to which he is most exposed , so we should take a more than ordinary care not to lis at the mercy of the weather in our LIE LIE.
... from this fine sentence . Tillotson . As a man should always be upon his guard against the vices to which he is most exposed , so we should take a more than ordinary care not to lis at the mercy of the weather in our LIE LIE.
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... Tillotson . 12. Gay ; airy ; wanting dignity or soli- dity ; triffing . Seneca cannot be too heavy , nor Plautus - too ight . Shakspeares Forgive If fictious light I mix with truch divine , And till these lines with offer praise than ...
... Tillotson . 12. Gay ; airy ; wanting dignity or soli- dity ; triffing . Seneca cannot be too heavy , nor Plautus - too ight . Shakspeares Forgive If fictious light I mix with truch divine , And till these lines with offer praise than ...
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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