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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... soul labours for an expression to represent it . Notes on the Odyssey . Epaphras saluteth you , always labouring fer- vently for you in prayers , that we may stand perfect . Colossians . 2. To do work ; to take pains . The matter of the ...
... soul labours for an expression to represent it . Notes on the Odyssey . Epaphras saluteth you , always labouring fer- vently for you in prayers , that we may stand perfect . Colossians . 2. To do work ; to take pains . The matter of the ...
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... soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LACKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ; to pay servile attendance . Oft have I servants seen on horses ride ...
... soul is found sincerely so , A thousand liveried angels lackey her , Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt . Mils . To LACKEY . v . n . To act as a footboy ; to pay servile attendance . Oft have I servants seen on horses ride ...
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... soul . Thomson's Spring . LANGUISHINGLY . adv . [ from languish- ** ing . ] 1. Weakly ; feebly ; with feeble softness . Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes , and know , What's roundly smooth , or languishingly slow . Pope . 2 ...
... soul . Thomson's Spring . LANGUISHINGLY . adv . [ from languish- ** ing . ] 1. Weakly ; feebly ; with feeble softness . Leave such to tune their own dull rhimes , and know , What's roundly smooth , or languishingly slow . Pope . 2 ...
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... soul , and came to lay it . Denham . At once the wind was laid , the whisp'ring sound Was dumb , a rising earthquake rock'd the ground . 13. To prohibit a spirit to walk . Dryden . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a ...
... soul , and came to lay it . Denham . At once the wind was laid , the whisp'ring sound Was dumb , a rising earthquake rock'd the ground . 13. To prohibit a spirit to walk . Dryden . The husband found no charm to lay the devil in a ...
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... soul in words , and waste Such precious moments . Addison's Cato . A melancholy thing to see the disorders of a houshold that is under the conduct of an angry stateswoman , who lays out all her thoughts upon the publick , and is only ...
... soul in words , and waste Such precious moments . Addison's Cato . A melancholy thing to see the disorders of a houshold that is under the conduct of an angry stateswoman , who lays out all her thoughts upon the publick , and is only ...
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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 | 8 Sep 2006 |
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