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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... prince , greatly moved the two princes to compassion . 2. So as to cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably . 3. Pitifully ; despicably . LAMENTATION . n . s . [ lamentatio ...
... prince , greatly moved the two princes to compassion . 2. So as to cause sorrow . Sidney . Our fortune on the sea is out of breath , Shakspeare . And sinks most lamentably . 3. Pitifully ; despicably . LAMENTATION . n . s . [ lamentatio ...
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... prince . Money , as necessary to trade , may be consi- dered as in his hands that pays the labourer and landbolder ; and if this man want money , the manufacture is not made , and so the trade is lost . Locke . LA'ND - JOBBER . n . s ...
... prince . Money , as necessary to trade , may be consi- dered as in his hands that pays the labourer and landbolder ; and if this man want money , the manufacture is not made , and so the trade is lost . Locke . LA'ND - JOBBER . n . s ...
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... prince's delicacies . Shakspeare . LEATHERCOAT . n.s. [ leather and coat . ] An apple with a tough rind . There is a dish of leathercoats for you Shaks . LEATHERDRESSER . N. S. [ leather and dresser ] He who prepares leather ; he who ...
... prince's delicacies . Shakspeare . LEATHERCOAT . n.s. [ leather and coat . ] An apple with a tough rind . There is a dish of leathercoats for you Shaks . LEATHERDRESSER . N. S. [ leather and dresser ] He who prepares leather ; he who ...
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... prince may not , much less may inferior judges , deny justice , when it is legally and com- petently demanded . Tayler . LEGATARY . n . s . [ legataire , Fr. from legatum , Lat . ] One who has a legacy left . An executor shall exhib't a ...
... prince may not , much less may inferior judges , deny justice , when it is legally and com- petently demanded . Tayler . LEGATARY . n . s . [ legataire , Fr. from legatum , Lat . ] One who has a legacy left . An executor shall exhib't a ...
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... as they ' gan his library to view , And antique registers for to avise , There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book , hight Briton's monuments . Fairy Queens 1 I have given you the library of a painter LIB LIB.
... as they ' gan his library to view , And antique registers for to avise , There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book , hight Briton's monuments . Fairy Queens 1 I have given you the library of a painter LIB LIB.
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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