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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... give as inheritance . That peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt kave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise man ...
... give as inheritance . That peace thou leav'st to thy imperial line , That peace , Oh happy shade ! be ever thine . Dryden . Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard ; thou shalt kave them for the poor and stranger . Leviticus , If a wise man ...
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... give him thy money upon usu- ry , nor lend him thy victuals for increase . Levit . They dare not give , and e'en refuse to lend , To their poor kindred , or a wanting friend . Dry . 2. To suffer to be used on condition that it be ...
... give him thy money upon usu- ry , nor lend him thy victuals for increase . Levit . They dare not give , and e'en refuse to lend , To their poor kindred , or a wanting friend . Dry . 2. To suffer to be used on condition that it be ...
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... give the hand which betokeneth pre - eminence . 4. Tune pricked for an instrument . Hooker . Those good laws were like good lessons set for a flute out of tune ; of which lessons little use can be made , till the flute be made fit to be ...
... give the hand which betokeneth pre - eminence . 4. Tune pricked for an instrument . Hooker . Those good laws were like good lessons set for a flute out of tune ; of which lessons little use can be made , till the flute be made fit to be ...
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... give . Nothing deadens so much the composition of a picture , as figures which appertain not to the subject : we may call them figures to be let . Dryden . She let her second floor to a very genteel man . Tatler . A law was enacted ...
... give . Nothing deadens so much the composition of a picture , as figures which appertain not to the subject : we may call them figures to be let . Dryden . She let her second floor to a very genteel man . Tatler . A law was enacted ...
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... give the lie to what , by the most invincible evidence , every one of them knew to be true . Locke . Men will give their own experience the lie , rather than admit of any thing disagreeing with these tenets . Locke . 3. A fiction . This ...
... give the lie to what , by the most invincible evidence , every one of them knew to be true . Locke . Men will give their own experience the lie , rather than admit of any thing disagreeing with these tenets . Locke . 3. A fiction . This ...
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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