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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... thought they had not enough make planted in it a double row of ivory , and made it the seat of smiles and blushes ... thoughts upon the publick , and is only attentive to find out miscarriages in the ministry . Addison's Freeb ...
... thought they had not enough make planted in it a double row of ivory , and made it the seat of smiles and blushes ... thoughts upon the publick , and is only attentive to find out miscarriages in the ministry . Addison's Freeb ...
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... thought for us . 14. TO LEAVE off . To desist from ; to forbear . If , upon any occasion , you bid him leave off the doing of any thing , you must be sure to carry the point . Locke . In proportion as old age came on , he left off fos ...
... thought for us . 14. TO LEAVE off . To desist from ; to forbear . If , upon any occasion , you bid him leave off the doing of any thing , you must be sure to carry the point . Locke . In proportion as old age came on , he left off fos ...
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... thought . He had marched to the length of Exeter , which 3. Laxative ; emollient . he had some thought of besieging . Clarendon , 9. End ; latter part of any assignable time . Churches purged of things burdensome , all was brought at ...
... thought . He had marched to the length of Exeter , which 3. Laxative ; emollient . he had some thought of besieging . Clarendon , 9. End ; latter part of any assignable time . Churches purged of things burdensome , all was brought at ...
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... thought of the mind , whereby either of them is preferred to the other . Locke . As it is in the motions of the body , so it is in the thoughts of our minds : where any one is such , that we have power to take it up , or lay it by ...
... thought of the mind , whereby either of them is preferred to the other . Locke . As it is in the motions of the body , so it is in the thoughts of our minds : where any one is such , that we have power to take it up , or lay it by ...
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... thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely story , that is , a credi- ble story . LIKELY . adv . Probably ; as may rea- sonably be thought . While man was innocent , he was likely ...
... thought or believed ; such as may be thought more reasonably than the con- trary : as , a likely story , that is , a credi- ble story . LIKELY . adv . Probably ; as may rea- sonably be thought . While man was innocent , he was likely ...
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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