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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Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , The matter of the ceremonies had wrought , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Caco . for the most part , only upon light - headed , weak Addison . men , whose satisfaction was not ...
Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , The matter of the ceremonies had wrought , Laborious virtues all ? learn them from Caco . for the most part , only upon light - headed , weak Addison . men , whose satisfaction was not ...
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Dryden . 3. Weakly ; unsteadily ; poorly , 3. With expressions or tokens of sorrow ; LA NENESS . Th . s . [ from lame . mournfully . ' I he matter in itself lamentable , lamentably 1. The state of a cripple ; Joss or inability expressed ...
Dryden . 3. Weakly ; unsteadily ; poorly , 3. With expressions or tokens of sorrow ; LA NENESS . Th . s . [ from lame . mournfully . ' I he matter in itself lamentable , lamentably 1. The state of a cripple ; Joss or inability expressed ...
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Woodward . which he turns about his matter so as Who drinks , alas ! but to forget ; nor sees , to shape it by the chisel . That melancholy sloch , severe disease , Those black circular lines we see on turned Mem'ry confus'd ...
Woodward . which he turns about his matter so as Who drinks , alas ! but to forget ; nor sees , to shape it by the chisel . That melancholy sloch , severe disease , Those black circular lines we see on turned Mem'ry confus'd ...
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The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , We need not lay new matter to his charge . when the towers are gone . Mortimer . Shakspeare : Men groan from out of the city , yet God 16. To wager ; to stake . layetb not folly to them ...
The chief time of laying gilliflowers is in July , We need not lay new matter to his charge . when the towers are gone . Mortimer . Shakspeare : Men groan from out of the city , yet God 16. To wager ; to stake . layetb not folly to them ...
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The terrestrial matter is disposed into strata LAY . n . s . [ from the verb . ] or layers , placed one upon another , in like man 2 Dez uzny earthy sediment , settling down from Laʼzily LAY LA AY.
The terrestrial matter is disposed into strata LAY . n . s . [ from the verb . ] or layers , placed one upon another , in like man 2 Dez uzny earthy sediment , settling down from Laʼzily LAY LA AY.
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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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