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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... face ; and , lastly , to be gen- tle , courteous , and compassionate to all . South . A spacious cave within its farmost part , Was hew'd and fashion'd by laborious art , Through the hill's hollow sides . Dryden . To his laborious youth ...
... face ; and , lastly , to be gen- tle , courteous , and compassionate to all . South . A spacious cave within its farmost part , Was hew'd and fashion'd by laborious art , Through the hill's hollow sides . Dryden . To his laborious youth ...
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... face . Swift . 4. Ornaments of fine thread curiously 5 . woven . Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces ; and , if they be brought from Italy , they are in great esteem . Bacon . Textures of thread , with gold ...
... face . Swift . 4. Ornaments of fine thread curiously 5 . woven . Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces ; and , if they be brought from Italy , they are in great esteem . Bacon . Textures of thread , with gold ...
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... face is universal , so it very comprehensive : : no laconism can reach it . It is the short - hand of the mind , and crowd- a great deal in a little room . Collier of the Aspect LACO NICALLY . adv . [ from laconic ☆ .. Briefly ...
... face is universal , so it very comprehensive : : no laconism can reach it . It is the short - hand of the mind , and crowd- a great deal in a little room . Collier of the Aspect LACO NICALLY . adv . [ from laconic ☆ .. Briefly ...
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... face . Shakspeare . 3. A gradual rise . Endow'd with all these accomplishments , we leave him in the full career of success , mounting fast towards the top of the ladder ecclesiastical , which he hath a fair probability to reach . Swift ...
... face . Shakspeare . 3. A gradual rise . Endow'd with all these accomplishments , we leave him in the full career of success , mounting fast towards the top of the ladder ecclesiastical , which he hath a fair probability to reach . Swift ...
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... face to the head : opposed to the starboard . Harris , Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd Charybdis , and by the other whirlpool steer'd . Melton Tack to the larboard , and stand off to sea , Veer starboard sea and land . Dryden ...
... face to the head : opposed to the starboard . Harris , Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunn'd Charybdis , and by the other whirlpool steer'd . Melton Tack to the larboard , and stand off to sea , Veer starboard sea and land . Dryden ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word