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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... virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred name ; After a life of glorious toils ...
... virtue or vice . His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life I'm sure was in the right . Cowley . Henry and Edward , brightest sons of fame , And virtuous Alfred , a more sacred name ; After a life of glorious toils ...
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... virtue . Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people ...
... virtue . Sidney . The prince , by chance , did on a lady light , That was right fair , and fresh as morning rose . Spenser Haply your eye shall light upon some toy You have desire to purchase . " Shakspears . As in the tides of people ...
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... virtues specifically re- quisite to a due performance of this duty . South . The colours of the prism are manifestly more full , intense , and ... virtue or vice , happiness or misery . The end of his descent was to gather a church LIV ...
... virtues specifically re- quisite to a due performance of this duty . South . The colours of the prism are manifestly more full , intense , and ... virtue or vice , happiness or misery . The end of his descent was to gather a church LIV ...
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... virtue we can boast , The woman that deliberates is lost . Swift . Addison . 9. To bewilder , so as that the way is no longer known . I will go lose myself And wander up and down to view the city . Shakspeare . Nor are constant forms of ...
... virtue we can boast , The woman that deliberates is lost . Swift . Addison . 9. To bewilder , so as that the way is no longer known . I will go lose myself And wander up and down to view the city . Shakspeare . Nor are constant forms of ...
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... virtue . Dryden . Lo'wLY . adj . [ from low . ] 1. Humble ; meek ; mild . Take my yoke upon you , and learn of me ; Matthew . for I am meek and lovely in heart . He did bend to us a little , and put his arms abroad : we of our parts ...
... virtue . Dryden . Lo'wLY . adj . [ from low . ] 1. Humble ; meek ; mild . Take my yoke upon you , and learn of me ; Matthew . for I am meek and lovely in heart . He did bend to us a little , and put his arms abroad : we of our parts ...
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Addison 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 fire French give Glanville hand hast hath head heart heav'n honour Hooker Hudibras kind king L'Estrange labour land Latin leave light live Locke look lord low Latin Maccabees manner marcasites matter mean Milt Milton mind motion mouth nature ness never night noun o'er optick pain pass passion peace pear person plant Pope pow'r prince Prior publick Raleigh 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 virtue Waller Watts Woodward word