Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Language, Illustrated with Quotations from Standard Writers |
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... interest or the force of cir- cumstances . As in strength of pur- pose we abjure , so in the same we often refuse to retract . Though Henry IV . of France abjured Calvinism , he would not retract the promise of pro- tection he made to ...
... interest or the force of cir- cumstances . As in strength of pur- pose we abjure , so in the same we often refuse to retract . Though Henry IV . of France abjured Calvinism , he would not retract the promise of pro- tection he made to ...
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... interest fall upon our ears from an- other quarter . As regards social conversation , the absent do not care for it , and the distracted get no benefit from it . Our own ideas make us abstracted . External objects dis- tract us . Hard ...
... interest fall upon our ears from an- other quarter . As regards social conversation , the absent do not care for it , and the distracted get no benefit from it . Our own ideas make us abstracted . External objects dis- tract us . Hard ...
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... interest and stimulate inquiry ; they appeal to the faculty of inquisitive- ness , and gratify it . " Let the Scriptures be hard ; are they more hard , more crabbed , more abstruse than the Fathers ? " - MILTON . " It is true our bodies ...
... interest and stimulate inquiry ; they appeal to the faculty of inquisitive- ness , and gratify it . " Let the Scriptures be hard ; are they more hard , more crabbed , more abstruse than the Fathers ? " - MILTON . " It is true our bodies ...
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... interest in which we believe that they may render us assistance . " They anon With hundreds and with thousands troop- ing came Attended , all access was thronged . " MILTON . " By thy approach thou mak'st me most unhappy . " SHAKESPEARE ...
... interest in which we believe that they may render us assistance . " They anon With hundreds and with thousands troop- ing came Attended , all access was thronged . " MILTON . " By thy approach thou mak'st me most unhappy . " SHAKESPEARE ...
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... interest to a certain unexpectedness . It is an event regarded irrespectively of what led to it , but not precluding the plain recognition or ascertain- ment of its cause , as e.g. an incident in a voyage or history . As an acci- dent ...
... interest to a certain unexpectedness . It is an event regarded irrespectively of what led to it , but not precluding the plain recognition or ascertain- ment of its cause , as e.g. an incident in a voyage or history . As an acci- dent ...
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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 623 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hatli promised to them that love him ? 6 But ye have despised the poor.
Page 637 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 625 - A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
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.
Page 119 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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.
Page 414 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
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.