Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Language, Illustrated with Quotations from Standard Writers |
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abstract action active animal applicable belongs BEN JONSON Bible body called cation cause character Cicero circumstances colour common commonly conduct connexion COWPER degree denotes desire disposition distinction DRYDEN duty effect employed Etym evil exercise expresses external fact faculty favour feeling fluence force former getic give habit hand happiness hath Hence herent honour Hudibras human Icel idea Iliad implies influence instance involves judgment kind less manner matters means ment mental metaphorical MILTON mind monly moral nature ness nexion object observed one's opinion opposed Ovid pain particular passion persons physical ployed Plutarch position possession principle produce purely purpose racter reason reference regard relates rence result sense SHAKESPEARE sion sometimes speak specific speech SPENSER spirit superior synonym tain taste tence term thing thought tical tion tive truth verb virtue Wealth of Nations word
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Page 307 - better have been done to-day. It is to delay, defer, or postpone through indolence or general unwillingness to commence action. " Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year it steals till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leave» The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 607 - employed in reference to the want or absence of anything that has value, even to impersonal objects. A thing is poor as a production of literature, science, or art. So a person may be poor in some respects, not in others. " Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that lore Him?
Page 512 - flowers reposed, and with fresh flowrets crowned. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy." MILTON. " It (charity) must preside with a superiority over all the desires of our hearts, that neither wantonness nor lust, nor anger and revenge, nor
Page 451 - While many a pastime circled in the shade. The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the And sleights of art and feats of strength
Page 259 - painted on it with an almost endless variety? whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience : on that all
Page 390 - of right perception, so all error would be wrong perception or mistake. This is Locke's meaning when he says— " Knowledge being to be had only of visible certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true."
Page 362 - Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence/' SHAKESPEARE. " Some gentlemen are not terrified by the facility with which government has been overturned in
Page 140 - but by skill only; so that one may be baffled yet still strive, but when one is defeated, the strife is over. "Too well I see and rue the dire event That with sad overthrow and
Page 646 - The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return."—
Page 88 - Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, Ana the regard of heaven on all his way*. While other animals inactive range, And of their