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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That by which any thing is supported Alas , poor lady ! desolate and left ; I weep myself to think upon thy words . She is so LE'GACY . n . s . ( legatum , Latin . ) on the ground : as , the leg of a table .
That by which any thing is supported Alas , poor lady ! desolate and left ; I weep myself to think upon thy words . She is so LE'GACY . n . s . ( legatum , Latin . ) on the ground : as , the leg of a table .
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He was the wretchedest thing when he was young , So long a growing , and so leisurely Ttar , the rule be true , he should be gracious . Sbakspeare . The earl of Warwick , with a handful or men , fred Leith and Edinburgh , and returned ...
He was the wretchedest thing when he was young , So long a growing , and so leisurely Ttar , the rule be true , he should be gracious . Sbakspeare . The earl of Warwick , with a handful or men , fred Leith and Edinburgh , and returned ...
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To grow longer ; thing is to get some measure of this common due to increase in length . ration , whereby to judge of its diferent lengths . Locke . One may as well make a yard , whose parts lengtben and shrink , as a measure of trade ...
To grow longer ; thing is to get some measure of this common due to increase in length . ration , whereby to judge of its diferent lengths . Locke . One may as well make a yard , whose parts lengtben and shrink , as a measure of trade ...
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She would give her a lesson for walking so late , thing , so as to take but little notice of the succession of ideas in his mind , lets slip out of his that should make her keep within doors for one fortnight . Locke .
She would give her a lesson for walking so late , thing , so as to take but little notice of the succession of ideas in his mind , lets slip out of his that should make her keep within doors for one fortnight . Locke .
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And ev'ry thing lies level to our wish . Sbaksp . I observed one weight lettered on both sides ; New shaves with level wing the deep . Milt . There is a knowledge which is very proper to and I found on one side , written in the dialect ...
And ev'ry thing lies level to our wish . Sbaksp . I observed one weight lettered on both sides ; New shaves with level wing the deep . Milt . There is a knowledge which is very proper to and I found on one side , written in the dialect ...
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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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