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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... thought it better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet , than to the slender fortification of his lodging . Sidney . 4. Convenience to sleep on . Their feathers serve to stuff our beds and pil- lows , yielding us soft and warm lodging ...
... thought it better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet , than to the slender fortification of his lodging . Sidney . 4. Convenience to sleep on . Their feathers serve to stuff our beds and pil- lows , yielding us soft and warm lodging ...
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... thought as to be wiser than their neighbours . Locke . Every one , if he would look into himself , would and some defect of his particular genius . Locke . Change a man's view of things ; let him look into the future state of bliss or ...
... thought as to be wiser than their neighbours . Locke . Every one , if he would look into himself , would and some defect of his particular genius . Locke . Change a man's view of things ; let him look into the future state of bliss or ...
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... thought , but every word and syllable . Dryden . He leaked upon it as morally impossible , for persons infinitely ... thoughts are to look out for a purchase . Locke . Where the body is affected with pain or sick- ness , we are forward ...
... thought , but every word and syllable . Dryden . He leaked upon it as morally impossible , for persons infinitely ... thoughts are to look out for a purchase . Locke . Where the body is affected with pain or sick- ness , we are forward ...
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... thoughts . Addison . 13. Free from confinement . They did not let prisoners loose homeward . Isaiah . Wish the wildest ... thought your love eternal : was it ty'd Part loosely wing the region , part more wise In common , rang'd in figure ...
... thoughts . Addison . 13. Free from confinement . They did not let prisoners loose homeward . Isaiah . Wish the wildest ... thought your love eternal : was it ty'd Part loosely wing the region , part more wise In common , rang'd in figure ...
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... thoughts require , To lose that health which should those thoughts inspire . Savage . 12. To squander ; to throw away ... thought of honour ever did assay His baser breast . Fairy Queen . Be not with work of losels wit defamed , Ne let ...
... thoughts require , To lose that health which should those thoughts inspire . Savage . 12. To squander ; to throw away ... thought of honour ever did assay His baser breast . Fairy Queen . Be not with work of losels wit defamed , Ne let ...
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