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: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volumen1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... Swift . This book was laid up as sacred in the church of Win- chester ; and for that reason , as graver authors say , was called " liber domûs Dei , " and by abbreviation " domesday book . " Temple , Intr . Hist . of Eng . ABBREVIATOR ...
... Swift . This book was laid up as sacred in the church of Win- chester ; and for that reason , as graver authors say , was called " liber domûs Dei , " and by abbreviation " domesday book . " Temple , Intr . Hist . of Eng . ABBREVIATOR ...
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... Swift , Ch . of Eng . Man . ABOLITION . n . s . [ Fr. abolition . ] The act of abolishing . This is now more frequently used than abolishment . And Dr. Johnson might have added , that it is a very old English word ; as the example ...
... Swift , Ch . of Eng . Man . ABOLITION . n . s . [ Fr. abolition . ] The act of abolishing . This is now more frequently used than abolishment . And Dr. Johnson might have added , that it is a very old English word ; as the example ...
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... Swift , Contests in Athens and Rome . Nothing can recommend itself to our love , on any other ac- count , but either as it promotes our present , or is a means to assure to us a future happiness . Rogers , Serm . v . Sempronius gives no ...
... Swift , Contests in Athens and Rome . Nothing can recommend itself to our love , on any other ac- count , but either as it promotes our present , or is a means to assure to us a future happiness . Rogers , Serm . v . Sempronius gives no ...
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... swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country , Under a hand accurs'd . Shakspeare , Macbeth . The chief part of the misery of wicked men , and those ac- cursed spirits , the devils , is this , that they are of a ...
... swift blessing May soon return to this our suffering country , Under a hand accurs'd . Shakspeare , Macbeth . The chief part of the misery of wicked men , and those ac- cursed spirits , the devils , is this , that they are of a ...
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... Swift ; though there are not wanting edi- tions of Johnson's Dictionary and of Swift's Works , in which the line , that is presently cited , is cor- rupted ; and instead of “ old áchés throb , " we find " old akes will throb . " Barret ...
... Swift ; though there are not wanting edi- tions of Johnson's Dictionary and of Swift's Works , in which the line , that is presently cited , is cor- rupted ; and instead of “ old áchés throb , " we find " old akes will throb . " Barret ...
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Addison AGNOMINATION ancient antiquity Arbuthnot Atterbury authority Bacon bear Beaum body Boyle Brown called cause Chaucer church Clarendon colour common Cotgrave Cowel death Dict dictionaries divine doth Dryden earth English ENGLISH LANGUAGE Errours etymology eyes fear French give Glanville Goth grace hand hath heart heaven Hist honour Hooker Hudibras Johnson says kind king kyng L'Estrange labour language Latin Locke Lord low Lat manner means Milton mind n. s. Fr n. s. Gr n. s. Lat n. s. old nature never night noun Opticks particle person Poems poetry Pope prince publick Saxon Scepsis sense Serm Sermons Shakspeare shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul South Spenser spirit Swift Tatler thee thing thou thought tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Vulg Warton word write written þat