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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... reason . Shakspeare . He was not able to keep that place three days , for lack of victuals . The trenchant blade , toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And eat into itself , for lack Of somebody to hew and hack ...
... reason . Shakspeare . He was not able to keep that place three days , for lack of victuals . The trenchant blade , toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And eat into itself , for lack Of somebody to hew and hack ...
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... reason they should follow them out . Hayward . When our Lycians see Our brave examples , they admiring say , Behold ... reasons : If he be laden , icy , cold , unwilling , Be thou s too . 3. Heavy dull . Shakspeare's Richard 111 . I'll ...
... reason they should follow them out . Hayward . When our Lycians see Our brave examples , they admiring say , Behold ... reasons : If he be laden , icy , cold , unwilling , Be thou s too . 3. Heavy dull . Shakspeare's Richard 111 . I'll ...
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... 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 allowances of expression . South's Sermons . What ! since 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 allowances of expression . South's Sermons . What ! since the ...
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... reason above themselves ; for then the soul , beginning to be freed from the liga- ments of the body , reasons like herself , and dis- courses in a strain above mortality . Addison . LIGAMENTAL . n . s . [ from ligament . ] LIGAMENTOUS ...
... reason above themselves ; for then the soul , beginning to be freed from the liga- ments of the body , reasons like herself , and dis- courses in a strain above mortality . Addison . LIGAMENTAL . n . s . [ from ligament . ] LIGAMENTOUS ...
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... reason be thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely story , that is , a credi- ble story . LIKELY . adv . sonably be thought . Probably ; as may rea- While man was innocent , he was ...
... reason be thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely story , that is , a credi- ble story . LIKELY . adv . sonably be thought . Probably ; as may rea- While man was innocent , he was ...
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