Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified so as to facilitate the expression of ideas1853 |
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... less important function as an instru- ment of thought , not being merely its vehicle , but giving it wings for flight . Metaphysicians are agreed that scarcely . any of our intellectual operations could be carried on to any considerable ...
... less important function as an instru- ment of thought , not being merely its vehicle , but giving it wings for flight . Metaphysicians are agreed that scarcely . any of our intellectual operations could be carried on to any considerable ...
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... less , and marks its distinction from the whole . Thus , man and woman , master and servant , father and son , prince and subject , stranger and citizen , are correlative terms . But the words seaman , carpenter , smith , tailor , & c ...
... less , and marks its distinction from the whole . Thus , man and woman , master and servant , father and son , prince and subject , stranger and citizen , are correlative terms . But the words seaman , carpenter , smith , tailor , & c ...
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... terminal syllable less , gives it a negative meaning : as taste , tasteless ; care , careless ; hope , hopeless ; friend , friendless ; fault , faultless ; & c . which they are now used , and which I presume xvi INTRODUCTION .
... terminal syllable less , gives it a negative meaning : as taste , tasteless ; care , careless ; hope , hopeless ; friend , friendless ; fault , faultless ; & c . which they are now used , and which I presume xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... less do I venture to thrid the mazes of the vast labyrinth into which I should be led by any attempt at a general discrimination of synonyms . The difficulties I have had to contend with have already been sufficiently great , without ...
... less do I venture to thrid the mazes of the vast labyrinth into which I should be led by any attempt at a general discrimination of synonyms . The difficulties I have had to contend with have already been sufficiently great , without ...
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... less could I have presumed to erect any absolute standard of purity . My object , be it remembered , is not to regulate the use of words , but simply to supply and to suggest such as may be wanted on occasion , leaving the proper ...
... less could I have presumed to erect any absolute standard of purity . My object , be it remembered , is not to regulate the use of words , but simply to supply and to suggest such as may be wanted on occasion , leaving the proper ...
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Side 10 - It is by such analysis alone that we can arrive at a clear perception of the relation which these symbols bear to their corresponding ideas, or can obtain a correct knowledge of the elements which enter into the formation of compound ideas, and of the exclusions by which we arrive at the abstractions so perpetually resorted to in the process of reasoning, and in the communication of our thoughts. Lastly, such analyses alone can determine the principles on which a strictly Philosophical Language might...
Side 9 - The principle by which I have been guided in framing my verbal classification is the same as that which is employed in the various departments of Natural History. Thus the sectional divisions I have formed correspond to Natural Families in Botany and Zoology, and the filiation of words presents a network analogous to the natural filiation of plants or animals.
Side 7 - Lion will find a place under the head of Courage, of which it is regarded as the type. Anchor, being emblematic of Hope, is introduced among the words expressing that emotion; and in like manner, butterfly and weathercock, which are suggestive of fickleness, are included in the category of Irresolution. With regard to the admission of many words and expressions, which the classical reader might be disposed to condemn as vulgarisms, or which he, perhaps, might stigmatize as pertaining rather to the...