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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... true to the prince . Of Gloster's treachery . And of the loyal service of his son , When I inform'd him , then he call'd me sot . Shakspeare Loyal subjects often seize their prince , Yet mean his sacred person not the least offence ...
... true to the prince . Of Gloster's treachery . And of the loyal service of his son , When I inform'd him , then he call'd me sot . Shakspeare Loyal subjects often seize their prince , Yet mean his sacred person not the least offence ...
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... true virtue void . The luxurious board . Pope . 3. Lustful ; libidinous . A late string will bear a hundred weight with- out rupture , but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity . Arbuthnot . Lands of singing , or of dancing ...
... true virtue void . The luxurious board . Pope . 3. Lustful ; libidinous . A late string will bear a hundred weight with- out rupture , but at the same time cannot exert its elasticity . Arbuthnot . Lands of singing , or of dancing ...
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... true reflection I would see my face ; Why brings the fool a magnifying glass ? Gran . The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's eyes , when they look upon his own person . Pope . As things seem large which we through ...
... true reflection I would see my face ; Why brings the fool a magnifying glass ? Gran . The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's eyes , when they look upon his own person . Pope . As things seem large which we through ...
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... true meridian is a major circle passing through the poles of the world and the zenith of any place , exactly dividing the east from the Brown . west . In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of ...
... true meridian is a major circle passing through the poles of the world and the zenith of any place , exactly dividing the east from the Brown . west . In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of ...
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... true judgment , and bereaves the state Or that integrity which should become it . Shakspeare . Thoughts , my tormentors arm'd with deadly stings , Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts , Exasperate , exulcerate , and raise Milton ...
... true judgment , and bereaves the state Or that integrity which should become it . Shakspeare . Thoughts , my tormentors arm'd with deadly stings , Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts , Exasperate , exulcerate , and raise Milton ...
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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