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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... peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtueş all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil ...
... peace . Prior . 2. Requiring labour ; tiresome ; not easy . Do'st thou love watchings , abstinence , and toil , Laborious virtueş all ? learn them from Cato . Addison . LABORIOUSLY . adv . [ from laborious . ] With labour ; with toil ...
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... peace and sleep . Psal . And they lay themselves down upon cloths laid to pledge , by every altar . Amos . We lay us down , to sleep away our cares ; night shuts up the senses . Glanville's Scepsis . Some god conduct me to the sacred ...
... peace and sleep . Psal . And they lay themselves down upon cloths laid to pledge , by every altar . Amos . We lay us down , to sleep away our cares ; night shuts up the senses . Glanville's Scepsis . Some god conduct me to the sacred ...
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... peace my soul shall part to heav'n , Since I have made my friends at peace on earth . Shakspeare . We come to be informed by yourselves , What the conditions of that league must be . Shakspeare . Thou shalt be in league with the stones ...
... peace my soul shall part to heav'n , Since I have made my friends at peace on earth . Shakspeare . We come to be informed by yourselves , What the conditions of that league must be . Shakspeare . Thou shalt be in league with the stones ...
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... peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt kave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise man were left to himself , and ...
... peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt kave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise man were left to himself , and ...
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... peace . Ben Jonson . How in the port our fleet dear time did leese , Withering like prisoners , which lie but for fees . Donne . LEET . n . 5 . Leete , or leta , is otherwise called a law - day . " The word seemeth to have grown from ...
... peace . Ben Jonson . How in the port our fleet dear time did leese , Withering like prisoners , which lie but for fees . Donne . LEET . n . 5 . Leete , or leta , is otherwise called a law - day . " The word seemeth to have grown from ...
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