Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Language, Illustrated with Quotations from Standard Writers |
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... duty , this moral colouring belongs not to the force of the term , which is essentially no more than that of final leaving or surrender , but to the circumstances of the case . It is only when all efforts to save his ship are hopeless ...
... duty , this moral colouring belongs not to the force of the term , which is essentially no more than that of final leaving or surrender , but to the circumstances of the case . It is only when all efforts to save his ship are hopeless ...
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... duty , and where the contrary involves a breach of trust , fidelity , honor , or natural obligation . Not so to desert a locality , which may be indifferent , justifiable , or pulsory . It was from overlooking the fact that places might ...
... duty , and where the contrary involves a breach of trust , fidelity , honor , or natural obligation . Not so to desert a locality , which may be indifferent , justifiable , or pulsory . It was from overlooking the fact that places might ...
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... duty , he who relinquishes has ceased to hope or to endeavour . As the others are applicable both to things and persons , so relinquish be- longs to things alone . In troublous times men have sought to preserve their treasure by ...
... duty , he who relinquishes has ceased to hope or to endeavour . As the others are applicable both to things and persons , so relinquish be- longs to things alone . In troublous times men have sought to preserve their treasure by ...
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... duty of a soldier , and the capacity of a general . " - DRYDEN . CAPABILITY ( Lat . căpābilis , suscep- tible of ) , when employed passively of things and not persons , means spe- cific practicability , as a plot of ground intended for ...
... duty of a soldier , and the capacity of a general . " - DRYDEN . CAPABILITY ( Lat . căpābilis , suscep- tible of ) , when employed passively of things and not persons , means spe- cific practicability , as a plot of ground intended for ...
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... duty may cause us to ab- stain from things in themselves in- different . " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming plea- sures , and yet abstain , and yet distinguish , and yet prefer that which is truly ...
... duty may cause us to ab- stain from things in themselves in- different . " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming plea- sures , and yet abstain , and yet distinguish , and yet prefer that which is truly ...
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abstract action active animal applicable belongs BEN JONSON 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 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 substance superior synonym tain taste tence term thing thought tical tion tive truth verb virtue Wealth of Nations word
Popular passages
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Page 473 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us lies...
Page 128 - How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
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Page 92 - Our eyelids: other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest; Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account.
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Page 194 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Page 196 - ... thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.