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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... thing . 2. To stick , in a figurative sense ; to be consistent ; to hold together . Why every thing adheres together , that no dram of a scruple , no scruple of a scruple , no incredulous or unsafe circumstance - Shakspeare . 3. To ...
... thing . 2. To stick , in a figurative sense ; to be consistent ; to hold together . Why every thing adheres together , that no dram of a scruple , no scruple of a scruple , no incredulous or unsafe circumstance - Shakspeare . 3. To ...
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... thing . 2. That which is adjacent . See ADJA- CENT . Because the Cape hath sea on both sides near it , and other lands , remote , as it were , equidi- stant from it ; therefore , at that point , the needle is not distracted by the ...
... thing . 2. That which is adjacent . See ADJA- CENT . Because the Cape hath sea on both sides near it , and other lands , remote , as it were , equidi- stant from it ; therefore , at that point , the needle is not distracted by the ...
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... thing , by means of an advertisement in the publick prints ; as , he advertised his loss . ADVERTISEMENT , sence . or ADVERTISE- MENT . n . s . [ advertissement , Fr. ] 1. Instruction ; admonition . - " Tis all men's office to speak ...
... thing , by means of an advertisement in the publick prints ; as , he advertised his loss . ADVERTISEMENT , sence . or ADVERTISE- MENT . n . s . [ advertissement , Fr. ] 1. Instruction ; admonition . - " Tis all men's office to speak ...
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... thing : gene- rally in a good sense , and sometimes in a bad , but less properly . So soon as Maurmon there arriv'd , the door To him did open , and afforded way . Fairy Q. This is the consolation of all good men , unto whom his ...
... thing : gene- rally in a good sense , and sometimes in a bad , but less properly . So soon as Maurmon there arriv'd , the door To him did open , and afforded way . Fairy Q. This is the consolation of all good men , unto whom his ...
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... thing . The poor remnant of human seed , which re- mained in their mountains , peopled their coun- try again slowly , by little and little . Bacon . Should Nature's self invade the world again , And o'er the centre spread the liquid ...
... thing . The poor remnant of human seed , which re- mained in their mountains , peopled their coun- try again slowly , by little and little . Bacon . Should Nature's self invade the world again , And o'er the centre spread the liquid ...
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.