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 3 |
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3 , Miserable , in a ludicrous or low sense ; 2. Iinperficily ; without a fullor complete pititul ; despicable . exhibition of all the parts . This bishop , to make out the disparity be1.ook not ev'ry lincament to see , tween the ...
3 , Miserable , in a ludicrous or low sense ; 2. Iinperficily ; without a fullor complete pititul ; despicable . exhibition of all the parts . This bishop , to make out the disparity be1.ook not ev'ry lincament to see , tween the ...
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The difference between reason and revelation , Another effect the Alps have on Geneva , is , and in what sense the latter is superior . Watts . that the sun here rises later and sets sooner than it LA'TTERLY . adv . ( from latter . ] ...
The difference between reason and revelation , Another effect the Alps have on Geneva , is , and in what sense the latter is superior . Watts . that the sun here rises later and sets sooner than it LA'TTERLY . adv . ( from latter . ] ...
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It has a sense implying doubt ; to say Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave no more ; to say the least ; not to say To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catilini all that might be said . Thrice happy snake ! that in her ...
It has a sense implying doubt ; to say Of Sylla's sway , when the free sword took leave no more ; to say the least ; not to say To act all that it would . Ben Jonson's Catilini all that might be said . Thrice happy snake ! that in her ...
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To read in publick ; the middle ages in the same sense . ] A to instruct an audience by a tormai exwhoremaster . I will now take the beacher ; he's at my house ; planation or discourse : as , Vallis leciur . he cannot ' scape me .
To read in publick ; the middle ages in the same sense . ] A to instruct an audience by a tormai exwhoremaster . I will now take the beacher ; he's at my house ; planation or discourse : as , Vallis leciur . he cannot ' scape me .
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True to his sense , but truer to his fame , Nothing deadens so much the composition of Fording his current , where thou find'st it low , a picture , as figures which appertain not to the Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow ...
True to his sense , but truer to his fame , Nothing deadens so much the composition of Fording his current , where thou find'st it low , a picture , as figures which appertain not to the Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow ...
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| Title | 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 3 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
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