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 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... reason ; but the effects of chance and hazard , of a mind floating at all adventures , without choice , and Locke . without direction . The direction of good works to a good end , is the only principle that distinguishes charity ...
... reason ; but the effects of chance and hazard , of a mind floating at all adventures , without choice , and Locke . without direction . The direction of good works to a good end , is the only principle that distinguishes charity ...
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... reason to think , that the Iliad will appear with no disad- wantage to that immortal poem . Addison . Their testimony will not be of much weight to its disadvantage , since they are liable to the common objection of condemning what they ...
... reason to think , that the Iliad will appear with no disad- wantage to that immortal poem . Addison . Their testimony will not be of much weight to its disadvantage , since they are liable to the common objection of condemning what they ...
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... reason . Watts . 2. Apparent ; exposed to view . They were deceived by Satan , and that not in an invisible ... Reason receives , and reason is her being DIS The goodly prospect of some foreign land, ...
... reason . Watts . 2. Apparent ; exposed to view . They were deceived by Satan , and that not in an invisible ... Reason receives , and reason is her being DIS The goodly prospect of some foreign land, ...
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... Reason receives , and reason is her being , Discoursive , or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours , the latter is most ours . Milton . Containing dialogue ; interlocutory . The epic is every where interlaced with dia- logue , or ...
... Reason receives , and reason is her being , Discoursive , or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours , the latter is most ours . Milton . Containing dialogue ; interlocutory . The epic is every where interlaced with dia- logue , or ...
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... reason of obedience , yet they may serve to discriminate him from any other person , whom she is not to obey . Stilling fleet . There may be ways of discriminating the voice ; as by acuteness and gravity , the several degrees of rising ...
... reason of obedience , yet they may serve to discriminate him from any other person , whom she is not to obey . Stilling fleet . There may be ways of discriminating the voice ; as by acuteness and gravity , the several degrees of rising ...
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Addison on Italy Addison's Spectator Æneid Arbuthnot Atterbury Bacon Bacon's Nat beasts Ben Jonson blood body Boyle Brown Brown's Vulgar cause Clarendon colour Coriolanus Cymbeline death Decay of Piety Denham Dict divine doth draw Dryd Dryden Dryden's Eneid Dutch earth Errours eyes fair Fairy Queen fall favour fear fire flowers force fore foul fruit give ground hath heart heav'n Henry VI honour Hooker Hudibras Juvenal kind King Lear L'Estrange Latin live Locke lord low Latin Macbeth Milton mind motion n. s. French nature ness never noun Opticks Othello Paradise Lost passion Pope pow'r Prior publick Raleigh Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's Henry shew Sidney soul South Spenser spirits Swift Temple thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue unto verb virtue Waller wind Woodward word