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, Volum 1T. Tegg, 1832 |
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... tion to the contrary extreme . Boyle's Works . ABJECTION . n . s . [ from abject . ] Mean- ness of mind ; want of spirit ; servi- lity ; baseness . That this should be termed baseness , abjection of mind , or servility , is it credible ...
... tion to the contrary extreme . Boyle's Works . ABJECTION . n . s . [ from abject . ] Mean- ness of mind ; want of spirit ; servi- lity ; baseness . That this should be termed baseness , abjection of mind , or servility , is it credible ...
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... tion . ] A liberal dispenser of admoni- tion ; a general adviser . A ludicrous term . Albeit the admonitiomers did seem at first , to like no prescript form of prayer at all ; but thought it the best , that their minister should always ...
... tion . ] A liberal dispenser of admoni- tion ; a general adviser . A ludicrous term . Albeit the admonitiomers did seem at first , to like no prescript form of prayer at all ; but thought it the best , that their minister should always ...
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... tion or cross , some great calamity or trouble , be- falleth them . • Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . In which wide frame , more noble worlds abound ...
... tion or cross , some great calamity or trouble , be- falleth them . • Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head . In which wide frame , more noble worlds abound ...
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... tion of a thing ; a faint sketch . The observers view but the backside of the hangings ; the right one is on the other side the grave : and our knowledge is , but like those bro- ken ends ; at best , a most confused adumbration ...
... tion of a thing ; a faint sketch . The observers view but the backside of the hangings ; the right one is on the other side the grave : and our knowledge is , but like those bro- ken ends ; at best , a most confused adumbration ...
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... tion of the matter . L'Estrange's Fables . tion ; disturbance of the thoughts . A great perturbation in nature ! to receive at once the benefit of sleep , and do the effects of watching . In this slumbry agitation , besides her have you ...
... tion of the matter . L'Estrange's Fables . tion ; disturbance of the thoughts . A great perturbation in nature ! to receive at once the benefit of sleep , and do the effects of watching . In this slumbry agitation , besides her have you ...
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Addison Æneid Aliments ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Coriolanus Cowell death Decay of Piety derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden earth eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French give grace ground hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VI honour Hooker horse Hudibras Julius Cæsar kind king King Lear L'Estrange language Locke lord manner Milton mind n. s. Lat nature ness noun Paradise Lost particle person Pope Pope's preter preterite prince Saxon Scepsis sense Shak Shakesp Shakespeare shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Vulg wind word