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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... learning , The Jews marvelled , saying , How knoweth this man letters , having never learned ? 5. Any thing to be read . 4 . Dryden . John . Good laws are at best but a dead letter . Addis . 6. Type with which books are printed . The ...
... learning , The Jews marvelled , saying , How knoweth this man letters , having never learned ? 5. Any thing to be read . 4 . Dryden . John . Good laws are at best but a dead letter . Addis . 6. Type with which books are printed . The ...
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... learning . A martial man , not sweetened by a lettered education , is apt to have a tincture of sourness . Collier . LETTUCE . n . s . [ lactuca , Latin . ] The species are , common or garden lettuce ; cabbage lettuce ; Silesia lettuce ...
... learning . A martial man , not sweetened by a lettered education , is apt to have a tincture of sourness . Collier . LETTUCE . n . s . [ lactuca , Latin . ] The species are , common or garden lettuce ; cabbage lettuce ; Silesia lettuce ...
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... learning , or lewd in life , are all the rest to be condemned ? Whitgifte . Before they did oppress the people , only by colour of a lewd custom , they did afterwards use the same oppressions by warrant . Davies . Lustful ; libidinous ...
... learning , or lewd in life , are all the rest to be condemned ? Whitgifte . Before they did oppress the people , only by colour of a lewd custom , they did afterwards use the same oppressions by warrant . Davies . Lustful ; libidinous ...
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... learning . Literary history , is an account of the state of learning and of the lives of learned men . Literary conversation , is talk about questions of learning . Lite- rary is not properly used of missive let- ters . It may be said ...
... learning . Literary history , is an account of the state of learning and of the lives of learned men . Literary conversation , is talk about questions of learning . Lite- rary is not properly used of missive let- ters . It may be said ...
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... the main chance , my son ; Put out the principal in trusty hands ; Live on the use , and never dip thy lands . Dryd . Whilst they have busied themselves in various K 1 Pope . learning , they have been wanting in MAİ ΜΑΙ.
... the main chance , my son ; Put out the principal in trusty hands ; Live on the use , and never dip thy lands . Dryd . Whilst they have busied themselves in various K 1 Pope . learning , they have been wanting in MAİ ΜΑΙ.
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