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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... action implied in the verb terminates . ACCU'SATORY . adj . [ from accuse . ] That produces or contains an accusation . In a charge of adultery , the accuser ought to set forth , in the accusatory libel , some certain Ayliffe . and ...
... action implied in the verb terminates . ACCU'SATORY . adj . [ from accuse . ] That produces or contains an accusation . In a charge of adultery , the accuser ought to set forth , in the accusatory libel , some certain Ayliffe . and ...
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... action . From every coast that heaven walks about , Have thither come the noble martial crew , That famous hard ... actions . Then shall the war , and stern debate , and strife Immortal , be the bus ness of my life ; And in thy fame ...
... action . From every coast that heaven walks about , Have thither come the noble martial crew , That famous hard ... actions . Then shall the war , and stern debate , and strife Immortal , be the bus ness of my life ; And in thy fame ...
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... Action ; the performance of exploits ; production of effects . ' Tis so much in your nature to do good , that your life is but one continued act of placing be- nefits on many , as the sun is always carrying his light to some part or ...
... Action ; the performance of exploits ; production of effects . ' Tis so much in your nature to do good , that your life is but one continued act of placing be- nefits on many , as the sun is always carrying his light to some part or ...
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... action . 2. An act or thing done ; a deed . This action , I now go on , Is for my better grace . Shakspeare's Wint . Tale . God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action , where that action may be done ; nay , so much ...
... action . 2. An act or thing done ; a deed . This action , I now go on , Is for my better grace . Shakspeare's Wint . Tale . God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action , where that action may be done ; nay , so much ...
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... action : opposed to idle or sedentary , or any state of which the duties are performed only by the mental powers . " Tis virtuous action that must praise bring forth , Without which , slow advice is little worth ; Yet they who give good ...
... action : opposed to idle or sedentary , or any state of which the duties are performed only by the mental powers . " Tis virtuous action that must praise bring forth , Without which , slow advice is little worth ; Yet they who give good ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
Page 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...
Page 32 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.