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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... called a dumb poesy , and the other a speak- ing picture . Dryden's Dufresnoy From thy new hope , and from thy growing store , Now lend assistance , and relieve the poor . Dryd . Cato , lend me for a while thy patience , And condescend ...
... called a dumb poesy , and the other a speak- ing picture . Dryden's Dufresnoy From thy new hope , and from thy growing store , Now lend assistance , and relieve the poor . Dryd . Cato , lend me for a while thy patience , And condescend ...
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... called liege lord . ] Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry VIII . for their king and liege lord ? Spenser . My lady liege , said he , What all your sex desire is sovereignty . Dryden . So much of it as is founded on the law of na ...
... called liege lord . ] Did not the whole realm acknowledge Henry VIII . for their king and liege lord ? Spenser . My lady liege , said he , What all your sex desire is sovereignty . Dryden . So much of it as is founded on the law of na ...
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... called the light day , and the darkness he called night . Genesis . So alike thou driv'st away Light and darkness , night and day , Carew . 3. Power of perceiving external objects by the eye : opposed to blindness . 4 . My strength ...
... called the light day , and the darkness he called night . Genesis . So alike thou driv'st away Light and darkness , night and day , Carew . 3. Power of perceiving external objects by the eye : opposed to blindness . 4 . My strength ...
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... called because used in cement . There are so many species of lime stone , that we are to understand by it in general any stone that , upon a proper degree of heat , becomes a white calx , which will make a great ebullition and noise on ...
... called because used in cement . There are so many species of lime stone , that we are to understand by it in general any stone that , upon a proper degree of heat , becomes a white calx , which will make a great ebullition and noise on ...
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... called loga- rithms . The addition and subtraction of ioga rithms answers to the multiplication and division of the numbers they correspond with ; and this saves an infinite deal of trouble . In like manner will the extraction of roots ...
... called loga- rithms . The addition and subtraction of ioga rithms answers to the multiplication and division of the numbers they correspond with ; and this saves an infinite deal of trouble . In like manner will the extraction of roots ...
Common terms and phrases
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