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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The sprout of that fig - tree which was to hide the part of a headdress that hangs loose . nakedness of lapsed Adam . Decay of Piety . Hos naturally do you apply your hands to All publick forms suppose it the most principal , universal ...
The sprout of that fig - tree which was to hide the part of a headdress that hangs loose . nakedness of lapsed Adam . Decay of Piety . Hos naturally do you apply your hands to All publick forms suppose it the most principal , universal ...
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Fr. ) A tree , called also the cherry bay . cantile : the ecclesiastical law whereby The laurus or laurel of the ancients is affirmed we are governed . by naturalists to be what we call the bay tree . 12. Jurisprudence ; the study of ...
Fr. ) A tree , called also the cherry bay . cantile : the ecclesiastical law whereby The laurus or laurel of the ancients is affirmed we are governed . by naturalists to be what we call the bay tree . 12. Jurisprudence ; the study of ...
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... casion from thence to conceive in his mind a Interspersed in lawns and opening glades , false belief , yet Christian charity will , in many Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades . cases , restrain a man . South . Pope .
... casion from thence to conceive in his mind a Interspersed in lawns and opening glades , false belief , yet Christian charity will , in many Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades . cases , restrain a man . South . Pope .
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Those things which are removed to a distant mustrie with troubled thoughts to take a view , ongiit to mike but one mass ; as the leaves na ; on the trees , and the billows in the sea . Lest kada slumbers poize me down to - morrow ...
Those things which are removed to a distant mustrie with troubled thoughts to take a view , ongiit to mike but one mass ; as the leaves na ; on the trees , and the billows in the sea . Lest kada slumbers poize me down to - morrow ...
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Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leaf about the Aud now thus leagu'd by ... Bare honesty , without some other adornment , being looked on as a leafless tree , nobody will We will bind and ...
Most trees fall off the leaves at autumn ; and if not kept back by cold , would leaf about the Aud now thus leagu'd by ... Bare honesty , without some other adornment , being looked on as a leafless tree , nobody will We will bind and ...
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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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