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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... Natural agents have their law . Hooker . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's laru . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Milton . Law can discover sin , but not ...
... Natural agents have their law . Hooker . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's laru . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Milton . Law can discover sin , but not ...
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... nature than others . 2. Slowness ; delay ; sluggish coldness . The lenter of eruptions , not inflammatory , points to an acid cause . Arbuthnot on Dict . 3. ( in physick . ] That sizy , viscid , coa- gai ted part of the biood , which ...
... nature than others . 2. Slowness ; delay ; sluggish coldness . The lenter of eruptions , not inflammatory , points to an acid cause . Arbuthnot on Dict . 3. ( in physick . ] That sizy , viscid , coa- gai ted part of the biood , which ...
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... nature swarms with life . 16. System of animal nature . Thomsen . Popes Lives through all life . 17. Life is also used of vegetables , and whatever grows and decays . LIFEBLOOD . n . s . [ life and blood . ] The blood necessary to ...
... nature swarms with life . 16. System of animal nature . Thomsen . Popes Lives through all life . 17. Life is also used of vegetables , and whatever grows and decays . LIFEBLOOD . n . s . [ life and blood . ] The blood necessary to ...
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... nature itself , are there not many which few men's natural capa city hath been able to find out ? Hooker . Light may be taken from the experiment of the horse - tooth ring , how that those things which assuage the strife of the spirits ...
... nature itself , are there not many which few men's natural capa city hath been able to find out ? Hooker . Light may be taken from the experiment of the horse - tooth ring , how that those things which assuage the strife of the spirits ...
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... nature . 2. Vivacity ; sprightliness . Extravagant young fellows , that have liveli- ness and spirit , come sometimes to be set right , and so make able and great men ; but tame and low spirits very seldom attain to any thing . Locke ...
... nature . 2. Vivacity ; sprightliness . Extravagant young fellows , that have liveli- ness and spirit , come sometimes to be set right , and so make able and great men ; but tame and low spirits very seldom attain to any thing . Locke ...
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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