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 |
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In this spawn of a lentous and transparent body , According to the difference of the lenses , I are to be discerned many specks which become used various distances . Newton . black , a substance more compacted and terresLEXT .
In this spawn of a lentous and transparent body , According to the difference of the lenses , I are to be discerned many specks which become used various distances . Newton . black , a substance more compacted and terresLEXT .
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Life . n . s . plural lives . [ lifian , to live , There were liers in ambush against him beSaxon . ] bird the city . Joshua . 1. Union and co - operation of soul with LIEU.E.S. ( Fr. ) Place ; room : it is only body ; vitality ...
Life . n . s . plural lives . [ lifian , to live , There were liers in ambush against him beSaxon . ] bird the city . Joshua . 1. Union and co - operation of soul with LIEU.E.S. ( Fr. ) Place ; room : it is only body ; vitality ...
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... like the body strained by lifting at That still shall rant , and still shall exercise a weight too heavy , has often ... talked prose all his lifetime , without the hill , the weight of the body beareth most knowing what it was .
... like the body strained by lifting at That still shall rant , and still shall exercise a weight too heavy , has often ... talked prose all his lifetime , without the hill , the weight of the body beareth most knowing what it was .
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Power of perceiving external objects body . by the eye : opposed to blindness . Though our licaments betimes grow weak , My strength faileth me ; as for the light of We must not force them till themselves they mine eyes , i also is gore ...
Power of perceiving external objects body . by the eye : opposed to blindness . Though our licaments betimes grow weak , My strength faileth me ; as for the light of We must not force them till themselves they mine eyes , i also is gore ...
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... the rattling sound hardly make the bulk of a pepper - cors : now the Of mimick thunder , and the glitt'ring blaze covers , and the true body of each seed , the paOf pointed ligbtnings , and their forky rays . renchymous and ligneous ...
... the rattling sound hardly make the bulk of a pepper - cors : now the Of mimick thunder , and the glitt'ring blaze covers , and the true body of each seed , the paOf pointed ligbtnings , and their forky rays . renchymous and ligneous ...
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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 | 7 Sep 2006 |
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