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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... mind a false belief , yet Christian charity will , in many South . I may be allowed to tell your lordship , the king of poets , what an extent of power you have , and how lawfully you may exercise it . Dryden . LAWFULNESS . n.s. [ from ...
... mind a false belief , yet Christian charity will , in many South . I may be allowed to tell your lordship , the king of poets , what an extent of power you have , and how lawfully you may exercise it . Dryden . LAWFULNESS . n.s. [ from ...
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... mind , will leave him in danger that delivered him . Ecclesiasticus . 3. To depart from , without action : as , I left things as I found them . When they were departed from him , they Ift him in great diseases . 4. To have remaining at ...
... mind , will leave him in danger that delivered him . Ecclesiasticus . 3. To depart from , without action : as , I left things as I found them . When they were departed from him , they Ift him in great diseases . 4. To have remaining at ...
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... mind ; power to spend time according to choice . A gentleman fell very sick , and a friend said to him , Send for a physician ; but the sick man answered , It is no matter ; for if I die , I will die at leisure . Bacon's Apophthegms ...
... mind ; power to spend time according to choice . A gentleman fell very sick , and a friend said to him , Send for a physician ; but the sick man answered , It is no matter ; for if I die , I will die at leisure . Bacon's Apophthegms ...
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... mind to mirth and merriment , Which bars a thousand harms , and lengthens life . Shakspeare . Break off thy sins by righteousness , and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor : if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity ...
... mind to mirth and merriment , Which bars a thousand harms , and lengthens life . Shakspeare . Break off thy sins by righteousness , and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor : if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity ...
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... mind , whereby either of them is preferred to the other . Locke . As it is in the motions of the body , so it is in the thoughts of our minds : where any one is such , that we have power to take it up , or lay it by , according to the ...
... mind , whereby either of them is preferred to the other . Locke . As it is in the motions of the body , so it is in the thoughts of our minds : where any one is such , that we have power to take it up , or lay it by , according to the ...
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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