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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... observe their gravity , And their reservedness , their many cautions , Fitting their persons . Ben Jonson's Catiline . Waller . I the wronged pen to please , Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship in these . " Tis Galla ...
... observe their gravity , And their reservedness , their many cautions , Fitting their persons . Ben Jonson's Catiline . Waller . I the wronged pen to please , Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship in these . " Tis Galla ...
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... observation in children , who , permitted the freedom of both hands , do oft- times confine it unto the left , and are not with- out great difficulty restr . ined from it . Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace ...
... observation in children , who , permitted the freedom of both hands , do oft- times confine it unto the left , and are not with- out great difficulty restr . ined from it . Brown's Vulg . Errours . The right to Pluto's golden palace ...
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... observe their motions , such were made choice of as were vigilant . Bacon . Who can endear Thy praise too much ? thou art Heav'n's leiger here , Working against the states of death and hell , Herbert . He withdrew not his confidence ...
... observe their motions , such were made choice of as were vigilant . Bacon . Who can endear Thy praise too much ? thou art Heav'n's leiger here , Working against the states of death and hell , Herbert . He withdrew not his confidence ...
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... observe the letter of the law , without doing violence to the reason of the law , and the intention of the lawgiver . Taylor . Those words of his must be understood not according to the bare rigour of the letter , but according to the ...
... observe the letter of the law , without doing violence to the reason of the law , and the intention of the lawgiver . Taylor . Those words of his must be understood not according to the bare rigour of the letter , but according to the ...
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... observation as untrue , much less condemn the person himself as a liar , whensoever it seems to be contradicted . Boyle . Thy better soul abhors a liar's part , Wise is thy voice , and noble is thy heart . Pope . LIARD . adj . I ...
... observation as untrue , much less condemn the person himself as a liar , whensoever it seems to be contradicted . Boyle . Thy better soul abhors a liar's part , Wise is thy voice , and noble is thy heart . Pope . LIARD . adj . I ...
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