Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Language, Illustrated with Quotations from Standard Writers |
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... feels with pain the slavish dependence under which he is brought to fortune and the world , to violent passions and ... feeling of disgrace , we can have none of dishonour except it be inflicted upon us by others . Yet in the term dis ...
... feels with pain the slavish dependence under which he is brought to fortune and the world , to violent passions and ... feeling of disgrace , we can have none of dishonour except it be inflicted upon us by others . Yet in the term dis ...
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... feelings only , but the judg- ment being concerned in it . It is a misapplication of the word to employ it of what is ... feeling , but tends to find ener- getic expression in words and protes- tation . The sick man abhors reme- dies and ...
... feelings only , but the judg- ment being concerned in it . It is a misapplication of the word to employ it of what is ... feeling , but tends to find ener- getic expression in words and protes- tation . The sick man abhors reme- dies and ...
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... feeling exces- sively , but in all these things being according to the rule of right reason . " Sobriety is sometimes opposed in Scrip- ture to pride , and sometimes to sensuality . " -GILPIN . TEMPERATE ( Lat . temperare , to tem- per ) ...
... feeling exces- sively , but in all these things being according to the rule of right reason . " Sobriety is sometimes opposed in Scrip- ture to pride , and sometimes to sensuality . " -GILPIN . TEMPERATE ( Lat . temperare , to tem- per ) ...
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... feeling and expression , as bitter hatred , bitter sarcasm , and also of the character of external events as affecting ourselves , as bitter misfortune . ACKNOWLEDGE . Own . CON- FESS . Avow . RECOGNIZE . To ACKNOWLEDGE is to admit that ...
... feeling and expression , as bitter hatred , bitter sarcasm , and also of the character of external events as affecting ourselves , as bitter misfortune . ACKNOWLEDGE . Own . CON- FESS . Avow . RECOGNIZE . To ACKNOWLEDGE is to admit that ...
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... feelings as we acknow- ledge facts , and own our participation in them . It may be added that Ac- KNOWLEDGE and Own ... feeling towards the object or per- son . We may be sufficiently ac- quainted with a man to know that we should never ...
... feelings as we acknow- ledge facts , and own our participation in them . It may be added that Ac- KNOWLEDGE and Own ... feeling towards the object or per- son . We may be sufficiently ac- quainted with a man to know that we should never ...
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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
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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.