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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Lowliness is young ambition's ladder , The lungs are suitable for respiration , and the Whereto the climber upwards curns his face . lectesus vessels for the reception of the chyle , Sbakspeare . Bentley . 3. A gradual rise .
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder , The lungs are suitable for respiration , and the Whereto the climber upwards curns his face . lectesus vessels for the reception of the chyle , Sbakspeare . Bentley . 3. A gradual rise .
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The young of a sheep . 2. To stay behind ; not to come in . I'm young ; but something Behind her far away a dwarf did lag . You may deserve of him through me , and wise Fairy Queen . dom , I shall not lag behind , nor err To offer up a ...
The young of a sheep . 2. To stay behind ; not to come in . I'm young ; but something Behind her far away a dwarf did lag . You may deserve of him through me , and wise Fairy Queen . dom , I shall not lag behind , nor err To offer up a ...
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... Indian women , are wrought , by a kind of lap10 which our infirmities daily expose us . Rogers . work , the quills of porcupines , not split , but of It hath been my constant business to examine the young onesintire ; mixed with ...
... Indian women , are wrought , by a kind of lap10 which our infirmities daily expose us . Rogers . work , the quills of porcupines , not split , but of It hath been my constant business to examine the young onesintire ; mixed with ...
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To strike with any thing pliant ; to The young Æneas , all at once let down , scourge . Stunn'd with his giddy larum half the town . Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again , Pope . Lasb hence these over - weening rags of France ...
To strike with any thing pliant ; to The young Æneas , all at once let down , scourge . Stunn'd with his giddy larum half the town . Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again , Pope . Lasb hence these over - weening rags of France ...
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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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| 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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