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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... lord the king , who hath appointed your meat and your drink ; for why should he see your faces worse liking , than the children which are of your sort ? Daniel . LIKING . n . s . [ from like . ] 1. Good state of body ; plumpness . I'll ...
... lord the king , who hath appointed your meat and your drink ; for why should he see your faces worse liking , than the children which are of your sort ? Daniel . LIKING . n . s . [ from like . ] 1. Good state of body ; plumpness . I'll ...
Page 75
... lord Merchison , a Scottish baron , and afterwards completed by Mr. Briggs , Savilian professor at Oxford . They are a se- ries of artificial numbers contrived for the expe- dition of calculation , and proceeding in an arith- metical ...
... lord Merchison , a Scottish baron , and afterwards completed by Mr. Briggs , Savilian professor at Oxford . They are a se- ries of artificial numbers contrived for the expe- dition of calculation , and proceeding in an arith- metical ...
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... Lord God , merciful and gracious , long- suffering , and abundant in goodness . Exodus . LO'NGSUFFERING . n . 5 . Patience of of- fence ; clemency . We infer from the mercy and long - suffering of God , that they were themselves ...
... Lord God , merciful and gracious , long- suffering , and abundant in goodness . Exodus . LO'NGSUFFERING . n . 5 . Patience of of- fence ; clemency . We infer from the mercy and long - suffering of God , that they were themselves ...
Page 75
... lord , said he , I not offend ? Are you afraid of me that are your friend ? Dryden . This young lord had an old cunning rogue , or , as the Scots call it , a false loon of a grandfather , that one might call a Jack of all trades ...
... lord , said he , I not offend ? Are you afraid of me that are your friend ? Dryden . This young lord had an old cunning rogue , or , as the Scots call it , a false loon of a grandfather , that one might call a Jack of all trades ...
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... lord ; and therefore the Danes , that usurped their tyranny here in Britain , were called , for more dread than dignity , lurdans , i .. lord Danes , whose insolence and pride was so out- rageous in this realm that if it for- tuned a ...
... lord ; and therefore the Danes , that usurped their tyranny here in Britain , were called , for more dread than dignity , lurdans , i .. lord Danes , whose insolence and pride was so out- rageous in this realm that if it for- tuned a ...
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