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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... appear gay , favour- able , pleasant , or fertile .. pray Entreat her not the worse , in that I You use her well ; the world may laugh again , And I may live to do you kindness , if You do it her . Shakspeare's Henry VI . Then laughs ...
... appear gay , favour- able , pleasant , or fertile .. pray Entreat her not the worse , in that I You use her well ; the world may laugh again , And I may live to do you kindness , if You do it her . Shakspeare's Henry VI . Then laughs ...
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... appear , And flaming carbuncles , and noisome sweat , And clammy dews , that loathsome lice beget ; Till the slow creeping evil eats his way . Dryden . LICEBANE . n . s . [ lice and bane . ] A plant . LICENSE . n . s . [ licentia , Lat ...
... appear , And flaming carbuncles , and noisome sweat , And clammy dews , that loathsome lice beget ; Till the slow creeping evil eats his way . Dryden . LICEBANE . n . s . [ lice and bane . ] A plant . LICENSE . n . s . [ licentia , Lat ...
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... appear Of arts that polish life ; inventors rare ! Unmindful of their Maker . All that cheers or softens life , Milton . The tender sister , daughter , friend , and wife . Pope . 11. Common occurrences ; human af- fairs ; the course of ...
... appear Of arts that polish life ; inventors rare ! Unmindful of their Maker . All that cheers or softens life , Milton . The tender sister , daughter , friend , and wife . Pope . 11. Common occurrences ; human af- fairs ; the course of ...
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... appear before great personages . Tayl Let every man that hath a calling be diligent in pursuance of its employment , so as not light- ly , or without reasonable occasion , to neglect it . Taylor . 5. Without dejection ; cheerfully . Bid ...
... appear before great personages . Tayl Let every man that hath a calling be diligent in pursuance of its employment , so as not light- ly , or without reasonable occasion , to neglect it . Taylor . 5. Without dejection ; cheerfully . Bid ...
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... appear that he liked the design . Clarendon . We like our present circumstances well , and dream of no change . Atterbury . 2. To approve ; to view with approba- tion , not fondness . 3 . Though they did not like the evil he did , yet ...
... appear that he liked the design . Clarendon . We like our present circumstances well , and dream of no change . Atterbury . 2. To approve ; to view with approba- tion , not fondness . 3 . Though they did not like the evil he did , yet ...
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
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