English Synonyms and Antonyms, with Notes on the Correct Use of PrepositionsFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1896 - 564 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute action allegory Anglo-Saxon animal Antonyms applied authority bad sense beautiful body called cause character chiefly command comminuted common commonly Compare synonyms deliberative assembly delight denotes derived desire differ distinctive divine effect endeavor enduring enemy especially evil EXAMPLES expression faith fancy favorable feeling foreordination formal friendship give habit happy heart honor hostile human human voice ical idea imply injury intent involves kind knowledge language Latin less limited marriage matter meaning ment mental mind monomania moral motion nature niggardly obiter dictum object offense one's onyms ordinarily original pain pardon periphrasis person or thing pietism pity Pleonasm possession practise predestination Prepositions primarily purpose qualities QUESTIONS rarely reason refers regard relations result Saxon signify soul sound speak special sense speech spirit statement style substance suggestion term thou thought tical tion truth uncon unfavorable sense usage usually utterance word
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Página 386 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Página 473 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 210 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her waggon spokes made of long spinners...
Página 460 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 143 - Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
Página 482 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 402 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Página 494 - Tread those reviving passions down, Unworthy manhood! — unto thee Indifferent should the smile or frown Of beauty be. If thou regret'st thy youth, why live? The land of honourable death Is here: — up to the field, and give Away thy breath! Seek out — less often sought than found — A soldier's grave, for thee the best; Then look around and choose thy ground, And take thy rest.
Página 451 - He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Página 490 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.