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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... thing is supported on the ground : as , the leg of a table . LEGACY . N. s . [ legatum , Latin . ] Legacy is a particular thing given by last will and testament . Cowel . If there be no such thing apparent upon re- cord , they do as if ...
... thing is supported on the ground : as , the leg of a table . LEGACY . N. s . [ legatum , Latin . ] Legacy is a particular thing given by last will and testament . Cowel . If there be no such thing apparent upon re- cord , they do as if ...
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... thing when he was young , So long a growing , and so leisurely That , if the rule be true , he should be gracious . Shakspeare . The earl of Warwick , with a handful of men , fired Leith and Edinburgh , and returned by a leisurely march ...
... thing when he was young , So long a growing , and so leisurely That , if the rule be true , he should be gracious . Shakspeare . The earl of Warwick , with a handful of men , fired Leith and Edinburgh , and returned by a leisurely march ...
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... thing is to get some measure of this common du- ration , whereby to judge of its different lengths . Locke . 5. Long duration or protraction . 4 May heav'n , great monarch , still augment your bliss , With length of days , and every day ...
... thing is to get some measure of this common du- ration , whereby to judge of its different lengths . Locke . 5. Long duration or protraction . 4 May heav'n , great monarch , still augment your bliss , With length of days , and every day ...
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... thing to farm , or otherwise , by lease , Lords of the world have but for life their lease , And that too , if the lessor please , must cease . shore filleth the sail , and the sail car- rieth the boulter into the sea , which , after ...
... thing to farm , or otherwise , by lease , Lords of the world have but for life their lease , And that too , if the lessor please , must cease . shore filleth the sail , and the sail car- rieth the boulter into the sea , which , after ...
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... thing lies level to our wish . Shaksp . Now shaves with level wing the deep . Milt . There is a knowledge which is very proper to man , and lies level to human understanding , the knowledge of our Creator , and of the duty we owe to him ...
... thing lies level to our wish . Shaksp . Now shaves with level wing the deep . Milt . There is a knowledge which is very proper to man , and lies level to human understanding , the knowledge of our Creator , and of the duty we owe to him ...
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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