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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... shew what lies in the di- rect way of truth , or is quite besides it . Locke . LANDSCAPE . n . s . [ landschape , Dutch . ] 1. A region ; the prospect of a country . Lovely seem'd , That landscape ! and of pure , now purer air , Meets ...
... shew what lies in the di- rect way of truth , or is quite besides it . Locke . LANDSCAPE . n . s . [ landschape , Dutch . ] 1. A region ; the prospect of a country . Lovely seem'd , That landscape ! and of pure , now purer air , Meets ...
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... shew . Dryden . One thing more I crave leave to offer about syllogism , before I leave it . Locke . I must have leave to be grateful to any who serves me , let him be never so obnoxious to any party : nor did the tory party put me to ...
... shew . Dryden . One thing more I crave leave to offer about syllogism , before I leave it . Locke . I must have leave to be grateful to any who serves me , let him be never so obnoxious to any party : nor did the tory party put me to ...
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... shew the most of these two qualities . Walsh . Mrs. P. B. has writ to me , and is one of the best letter writers I know ; very good sense , ci- vility , and friendship , without any stiffness or constraint . Swift . 3. The verbal ...
... shew the most of these two qualities . Walsh . Mrs. P. B. has writ to me , and is one of the best letter writers I know ; very good sense , ci- vility , and friendship , without any stiffness or constraint . Swift . 3. The verbal ...
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... Becoming a gentleman . 3. Munificent ; generous ; bountiful ; not parsimonious . Her name was Mercy , well - known over all , To be both gracious , and eke liberal . Spenser . Sparing would shew a worse sin than ill doc- trine LIB LIB.
... Becoming a gentleman . 3. Munificent ; generous ; bountiful ; not parsimonious . Her name was Mercy , well - known over all , To be both gracious , and eke liberal . Spenser . Sparing would shew a worse sin than ill doc- trine LIB LIB.
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... shew a worse sin than ill doc- trine . Men of his way should be most liberal , They ' re set here for examples . Needs must the pow'r Shakspeare . That made us , and for us this ample world , Be infinitely good , and of his good As ...
... shew a worse sin than ill doc- trine . Men of his way should be most liberal , They ' re set here for examples . Needs must the pow'r Shakspeare . That made us , and for us this ample world , Be infinitely good , and of his good As ...
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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