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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... publick forms suppose it the most princi- pal , universal , and daily requisite to the lapsing state of human corruption . Decay of Piety . of Piet These were looked on as lapsed persons , and great severities of penance were prescribed ...
... publick forms suppose it the most princi- pal , universal , and daily requisite to the lapsing state of human corruption . Decay of Piety . of Piet These were looked on as lapsed persons , and great severities of penance were prescribed ...
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... publick care , Waller . Thinks of providing for an heir ; Learns how to get , and how to spare . Denham . The Tuscan king Laid by the lance , and took him to the sling . Dryden . Where Dædalus his borrow'd wings laid by , To that ...
... publick care , Waller . Thinks of providing for an heir ; Learns how to get , and how to spare . Denham . The Tuscan king Laid by the lance , and took him to the sling . Dryden . Where Dædalus his borrow'd wings laid by , To that ...
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... publick , and is only attentive to find out miscarriages in the ministry . Addison's Freeb . When a man spends his whole life among the stars and planets , or lays out a twelve - month on the spots in the sun , however noble his specu ...
... publick , and is only attentive to find out miscarriages in the ministry . Addison's Freeb . When a man spends his whole life among the stars and planets , or lays out a twelve - month on the spots in the sun , however noble his specu ...
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... publick or private . Then 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 ...
... publick or private . Then 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 ...
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... publick approbation . Locke . - We procured a licence of the duke of Parma to enter the theatre and gallery . Addison on Italy . 3. Liberty ; permission . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he ...
... publick approbation . Locke . - We procured a licence of the duke of Parma to enter the theatre and gallery . Addison on Italy . 3. Liberty ; permission . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he ...
Common terms and phrases
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