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 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes which will again be changed , while imitation ...
... less ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral utterance , or copy that which every variation of time or place makes different from itself , and imitate those changes which will again be changed , while imitation ...
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... less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use ...
... less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms cannot always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use ...
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... less scrupulousness than those which are to teach their structures and relations . My purpose was to admit no testimony of living authors , that I might not be misled by partiality , and that none of my contemporaries might have reason ...
... less scrupulousness than those which are to teach their structures and relations . My purpose was to admit no testimony of living authors , that I might not be misled by partiality , and that none of my contemporaries might have reason ...
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... less remote from the ori tion . They have however generally formed thography , and less liable to capricious innova their tables according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and concluding that the ...
... less remote from the ori tion . They have however generally formed thography , and less liable to capricious innova their tables according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and concluding that the ...
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... less variation in England than in most other nations of equal extent . The language of the northern counties retains many words now out of use , but which are commonly of the genuine Teu- tonick race ; and is uttered with a pronuncia ...
... less variation in England than in most other nations of equal extent . The language of the northern counties retains many words now out of use , but which are commonly of the genuine Teu- tonick race ; and is uttered with a pronuncia ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 12 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 124 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 15 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Página 10 - The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasure"d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Página 32 - Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him ; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Página 7 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.