A sequel to The student's manual, vocabulary of words derived from the Latin, by the author of 'The student's manual'. |
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... judges in particular cases . In the course of time every one was admitted to this benefit who could read . This privi- lege was formerly admitted even in cases of murder ; but the law is now much altered on this head . Benevolence . See ...
... judges in particular cases . In the course of time every one was admitted to this benefit who could read . This privi- lege was formerly admitted even in cases of murder ; but the law is now much altered on this head . Benevolence . See ...
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... judge ; a quotation or passage taken from another . " View the principles in their own authors , and not in the citations of those who could confute them . " Watts . City , civic , civil . See CIVIS . Though the word city signifies with ...
... judge ; a quotation or passage taken from another . " View the principles in their own authors , and not in the citations of those who could confute them . " Watts . City , civic , civil . See CIVIS . Though the word city signifies with ...
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... judge . " Swift . -Conscientious . Regulated by conscience .-- Con- scious . Endowed with the power of knowing one's own thoughts and actions . " Matter hath no life nor perception , and is not conscious of its own existence ...
... judge . " Swift . -Conscientious . Regulated by conscience .-- Con- scious . Endowed with the power of knowing one's own thoughts and actions . " Matter hath no life nor perception , and is not conscious of its own existence ...
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... judge rightly between truth and er- ror , good and evil . Effect . - Effluvium . See E. Effluvia , are those small particles which are continually flying off from bo- dies ; the subtilty of which appears from their being able , a long ...
... judge rightly between truth and er- ror , good and evil . Effect . - Effluvium . See E. Effluvia , are those small particles which are continually flying off from bo- dies ; the subtilty of which appears from their being able , a long ...
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... Pope . Expect . - Expedient . - Expel . - Expend and expense .-- Experience and expert . See E. " Expert men can execute , and judge of particulars , one by one ; but the general counsels , and the plots and marshalling of af- EX P.
... Pope . Expect . - Expedient . - Expel . - Expend and expense .-- Experience and expert . See E. " Expert men can execute , and judge of particulars , one by one ; but the general counsels , and the plots and marshalling of af- EX P.
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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.