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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... nature . Dryden . As some faint pilgrim standing on the shore , First views the torrent he would venture o'er ; And then his inn upon the farther ground , Loth to wade through , and lotber to go round : Then dipping in his staff doth ...
... nature . Dryden . As some faint pilgrim standing on the shore , First views the torrent he would venture o'er ; And then his inn upon the farther ground , Loth to wade through , and lotber to go round : Then dipping in his staff doth ...
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... nature , or the agency of spirits . I'll humbly signify what , in his name , That magical word of war , we have effected . Shakspeare . They beheld unveiled the magical shield of your Ariosto , which dazzled the beholders with too much ...
... nature , or the agency of spirits . I'll humbly signify what , in his name , That magical word of war , we have effected . Shakspeare . They beheld unveiled the magical shield of your Ariosto , which dazzled the beholders with too much ...
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... nature . This shews the high malignity of fraud , that in the natural course of it tends to the destruction of common life , by destroying trust and mutual confidence . South . MALIGNLY , adv . [ from malign . ] Envi ously ; with ill ...
... nature . This shews the high malignity of fraud , that in the natural course of it tends to the destruction of common life , by destroying trust and mutual confidence . South . MALIGNLY , adv . [ from malign . ] Envi ously ; with ill ...
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... nature . In Seth was the church of God established ; from whom Christ descended , as touching his manbood . Raleigh ... nature of God is excellent , so like- wise is it to know him in those glorious mani- festations of himself in the ...
... nature . In Seth was the church of God established ; from whom Christ descended , as touching his manbood . Raleigh ... nature of God is excellent , so like- wise is it to know him in those glorious mani- festations of himself in the ...
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... natural power , opposed to the pro- bable . MARVELLOUSLY . adv . [ from marvel- Lous . ] Wonderfully ; strangely . You ... nature ? Milton's Paradise Lost . 2. Resembling man ; virile ; not soft ; not effeminate . You find something bold ...
... natural power , opposed to the pro- bable . MARVELLOUSLY . adv . [ from marvel- Lous . ] Wonderfully ; strangely . You ... nature ? Milton's Paradise Lost . 2. Resembling man ; virile ; not soft ; not effeminate . You find something bold ...
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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