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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volum 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... Brown ; a style " vigorous , but rugged ; learned , but pedantick ; deep , but obscure it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are harsh , and his combinations uncouth . " This is attributed to ...
... Brown ; a style " vigorous , but rugged ; learned , but pedantick ; deep , but obscure it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are harsh , and his combinations uncouth . " This is attributed to ...
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... Brown ; and in the following discriminative remarks to introduce some of our finest writers , with a com- parative estimate also of Addison and Johnson . ( k ) Cowley , " he observes , " may be placed at the head of those who cultivated ...
... Brown ; and in the following discriminative remarks to introduce some of our finest writers , with a com- parative estimate also of Addison and Johnson . ( k ) Cowley , " he observes , " may be placed at the head of those who cultivated ...
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... Brown , Vulg . Err . iii . 20 . ABDU'CENT . adj . Muscles abducent , are those which serve to open or pull back divers parts of the body ; their opposites being called adducent . ABDUCTION . n . s . [ abductio , Lat . ] Dict . 1. The ...
... Brown , Vulg . Err . iii . 20 . ABDU'CENT . adj . Muscles abducent , are those which serve to open or pull back divers parts of the body ; their opposites being called adducent . ABDUCTION . n . s . [ abductio , Lat . ] Dict . 1. The ...
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... Brown , Vulg . Err . Such is every man , who has not actuated the grace given him , Dec. of Piety . to the subduing of every reigning sin . Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and , on the contrary , mean and ...
... Brown , Vulg . Err . Such is every man , who has not actuated the grace given him , Dec. of Piety . to the subduing of every reigning sin . Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and , on the contrary , mean and ...
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... Brown . The clerk who is presented , ought to prove to the bishop , that he is a deacon , and that he has orders ; otherwise , the bishop is not bound to admit him : for , as the law then stood , a deacon was admittable . Ayliffe's ...
... Brown . The clerk who is presented , ought to prove to the bishop , that he is a deacon , and that he has orders ; otherwise , the bishop is not bound to admit him : for , as the law then stood , a deacon was admittable . Ayliffe's ...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1832 |
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Addison AGNOMINATION ancient antiquity Arbuthnot Atterbury authority Bacon bear Beaum body Boyle Brown called cause Chaucer church Clarendon colour common Cotgrave Cowel death Dict dictionaries divine doth Dryden earth English ENGLISH LANGUAGE Errours etymology eyes fear French give Glanville Goth grace hand hath heart heaven Hist honour Hooker Hudibras Johnson says kind king kyng L'Estrange labour language Latin Locke Lord low Lat manner means Milton mind n. s. Fr n. s. Gr n. s. Lat n. s. old nature never night noun Opticks particle person Poems poetry Pope prince publick Saxon Scepsis sense Serm Sermons Shakspeare shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul South Spenser spirit Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Vulg Warton word write written þat