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... equal relation to some common ancestor . Colleague . See CUM . Collect . See CUM . Collect denotes a prayer made for any particular day ; and is so called either be- cause the priest speaks in the name of the whole assembly whose ...
... equal relation to some common ancestor . Colleague . See CUM . Collect . See CUM . Collect denotes a prayer made for any particular day ; and is so called either be- cause the priest speaks in the name of the whole assembly whose ...
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... equal , the angles opposite to those sides are also equal : the converse of the propo- sition is , that if two angles of a triangle be equal , the sides opposite to those angles are also equal . Conversion . - Convert . - Convex . See ...
... equal , the angles opposite to those sides are also equal : the converse of the propo- sition is , that if two angles of a triangle be equal , the sides opposite to those angles are also equal . Conversion . - Convert . - Convex . See ...
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... equal sides , has also two equal angles , ' this consequence ( corollary ) should be drawn , " that a triangle , which has the three sides equal , has also its three angles equal . " Coronation , from corona , a crown . The act or ...
... equal sides , has also two equal angles , ' this consequence ( corollary ) should be drawn , " that a triangle , which has the three sides equal , has also its three angles equal . " Coronation , from corona , a crown . The act or ...
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... equal day and night all round the globe , and all people living on this cir- cle , called by mariners , " The Line , " have their days and nights constantly equal . The circle formed by extending the plane of the equator to the ...
... equal day and night all round the globe , and all people living on this cir- cle , called by mariners , " The Line , " have their days and nights constantly equal . The circle formed by extending the plane of the equator to the ...
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... equal parts , the northern and the southern . Whenever the sun comes to this circle , he makes equal day and night all round the globe ; hence it has the name equinoctial . Equinox . The equinoxes happen when the sun is in the ...
... equal parts , the northern and the southern . Whenever the sun comes to this circle , he makes equal day and night all round the globe ; hence it has the name equinoctial . Equinox . The equinoxes happen when the sun is in the ...
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action adjective ancient ancient Rome animal antepenult applied body CADO called CAPIO cause CEDO changed circumstances common compounded conduct congruus consists continue conveys corruption CRESCO dative declare declension degree Deism denotes derived Dico distinguished Duco employed English exercise existence express extended sense external FACIO feelings FERO figurative sense former give grammar hence idea implies incitatus JACIO ject Julius Cæsar knowledge language Latin Latin language lative latter LEGO less literally manner marks means ment mind MITTO mode moral sense nature neral nifies noun object offend one's opposed origin ourselves outward Paradise Lost participle particular pello persons or things PoNo preposition PRETER qualities racter regard relation respects Romans SCRIBO sentiment signifies sion SISTO sometimes speak species stand substance supposed synonymous TENEO term ther tion trans VENIO verb VERTO volvo whence word writing
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Page 38 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page xiv - But I am apt to imagine, that were the imperfections of language, as the instrument of knowledge, more thoroughly weighed, a great many of the controversies that make such a noise in the world, would of themselves cease ; and the way to knowledge, and perhaps peace, too, lie a great deal opener than it does.
Page 266 - ... ad libitum. All matters depending remain in statu quo, and when they meet again, be the term ever so distant, are resumed without any fresh commencement, at the point at which they were left.
Page 294 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page xii - Spirit, in its primary signification, is breath; angel, a messenger ; and I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find in all languages the names which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas. By which we may give some kind of guess what kind of notions they were, and whence derived, which filled their minds who were the first beginners of languages; and how nature, even in the naming of things, unawares suggested...
Page 114 - So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's handsome, valiant, wise, If he can kill him, thinks t...
Page 63 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 75 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Page 162 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 46 - The pleasure of the religious man is an easy and a portable pleasure, such an one as he carries about in his bosom, without alarming either the eye or envy of the world.