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 . These were looked on as lapsed persons , and great severities of penance were prescribed them ...
... publick forms suppose it the most princi- pal , universal , and daily requisite to the lapsing state of human corruption . Decay of Piety . These were looked on as lapsed persons , and great severities of penance were prescribed them ...
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... publick care , 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 Dedalus his borrow'd wings laid by , To that obscure retreat ...
... publick care , 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 Dedalus his borrow'd wings laid by , To that obscure retreat ...
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... publick approbation . Locke . 3 . Italy . We procured a licence of the duke of Parma to enter the theatre and gallery . Addison on Liberty ; permission . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he ...
... publick approbation . Locke . 3 . Italy . We procured a licence of the duke of Parma to enter the theatre and gallery . Addison on Liberty ; permission . It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die , before that he ...
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... Publick view ; publick notice . 2. Inconstancy ; unsteadiness . For , unto knight there. view of the mind . Spectator . Spectator . Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heav'ns ! was I born for nothing but to write . 12. The ...
... Publick view ; publick notice . 2. Inconstancy ; unsteadiness . For , unto knight there. view of the mind . Spectator . Spectator . Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heav'ns ! was I born for nothing but to write . 12. The ...
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... publick life , that generous spirit , which all other Christians ought to labour after , should look in us as if they were natural . Spratt . Piety , as it is thought a way to the favour of God ; and fortune , as it looks like the ...
... publick life , that generous spirit , which all other Christians ought to labour after , should look in us as if they were natural . Spratt . Piety , as it is thought a way to the favour of God ; and fortune , as it looks like the ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word