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 . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's law . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Law can discover sin , but not remove , Save by these ...
... Natural agents have their law . I dy'd , whilst in the womb he stay'd , Attending Nature's law . Shaksp . Cymbeline . 9. The Mosaical institution : distinguish- ed from the gospel . Law can discover sin , but not remove , Save by these ...
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... nature than others . Bacon . 2. Slowness ; delay ; sluggish coldness . The lentar 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 ...
... nature than others . Bacon . 2. Slowness ; delay ; sluggish coldness . The lentar 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 ...
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... nature itself , are there not many which few men's natural - сара- 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 ...
... nature itself , are there not many which few men's natural - сара- 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 ...
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... nature hath provided on the rump two glandules , which the bird catches hold upon with her bill , and squeezes out an oily pap or liniment , fit for the inunction of the feathers . LINING . n . s . [ from line . ] Ray , 1. The inner ...
... nature hath provided on the rump two glandules , which the bird catches hold upon with her bill , and squeezes out an oily pap or liniment , fit for the inunction of the feathers . LINING . n . s . [ from line . ] Ray , 1. The inner ...
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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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| 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 | 8 Sep 2006 |
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