English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best WritersHarper & Brothers, 1841 - 535 Seiten |
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... Latin discriminatus , participle of discrimino , to make a difference ; judgement denotes the power of judging , from judge , in Latin judico , compounded of jus and dico , signifying to pronounce right . The first three of these terms ...
... Latin discriminatus , participle of discrimino , to make a difference ; judgement denotes the power of judging , from judge , in Latin judico , compounded of jus and dico , signifying to pronounce right . The first three of these terms ...
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... Latin considering all those reasons upon which it is built . libet it pleaseth , signifying the pleasure or assent of the NELSON . For whatever men do they ought to have a mind . Credit , in French credit , Latin creditus , parti ...
... Latin considering all those reasons upon which it is built . libet it pleaseth , signifying the pleasure or assent of the NELSON . For whatever men do they ought to have a mind . Credit , in French credit , Latin creditus , parti ...
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... Latin præcipio , signifies the thing laid down ; and principle , in French principe , Latin principium , signi- fies the beginning of things , that is , their first or origi- nal component parts . The doctrine requires a teacher ; the ...
... Latin præcipio , signifies the thing laid down ; and principle , in French principe , Latin principium , signi- fies the beginning of things , that is , their first or origi- nal component parts . The doctrine requires a teacher ; the ...
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... Latin augurium , comes froin avis a bird , as an augury was originally , and at all times , principally drawn from the song , the flight , or other actions of birds . The augurium of the Latins , and the olovioua of the Greeks , was a ...
... Latin augurium , comes froin avis a bird , as an augury was originally , and at all times , principally drawn from the song , the flight , or other actions of birds . The augurium of the Latins , and the olovioua of the Greeks , was a ...
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... Latin detractum , participle of detrako , from de and trako to draw down , signifies to set a thing below its real value ; traduce , in Latin traduco or transduco , signifies to carry from one to another that which is unfavourable ...
... Latin detractum , participle of detrako , from de and trako to draw down , signifies to set a thing below its real value ; traduce , in Latin traduco or transduco , signifies to carry from one to another that which is unfavourable ...
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according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense body cause cern character characteristick Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct consequence degree denotes disposition distinction Divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets errour evil exertion expresses favour feeling former French frequently friends generick German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence honour human humour idea implies individual inferiour judgement labour Latin latter less likewise Low German manner marks means ment mind mode nature ness never nexion object offender one's onomatopeia opinion opposed ordinary ourselves pain participle particular passions perly person Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce publick racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul speak species specifick spects spirit superiour supposed temper thing tion Titus Manlius Torquatus tremour uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word
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Seite 114 - Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.
Seite 205 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor^ and rich men rule the law...
Seite 347 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Seite 230 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular : and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them...
Seite 65 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Seite 318 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear...
Seite 72 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Seite 305 - Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains; The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in...
Seite 337 - ... so perfectly, as to be acquainted with the most simple of all contracts, that of exchanging by barter one rude commodity for another. But as soon as this important right is established, and every individual feels that he has an exclusive title to possess or...
Seite 256 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...