A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language, Volume 1 |
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acid alumina ammonia Anatomy ancient angle animal annual plants anthers anthos anti antimony applied arch Architecture atomic weight atoms bear beautiful belonging Ben Jonson bivalve body bones Botany called calyx carbon chrysos church Coleopterous insects colour common Composite plants compound Conchology consisting containing crystals denote dorsal fin fins flowers fossil French fruit genera genus of birds genus of Coleopterous genus of fishes genus of plants Greek head Heraldry herbaceous honour horse insects instrument iron Ital Jonson kind Latin leaves lime Linnæus manner ment metal mineral Mollusca Music name given natives natural order Obsolete oxide oxygen person Pertaining piece priv produced Relating resembling Roman round Scotland seeds sense Shaks shell ship shrubs signifying species stamens stoma stone substance tail taining term thing tion trees Tribe verb vessel wings wood word
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Page 211 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
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Page 167 - Sea stock at a future time for a certain price ; but he who contracted to sell had frequently no stock to transfer, nor did he who bought intend to receive any in consequence of his bargain : the seller was therefore called a bear, in allusion to the proverb; and the buyer a bull, perhaps only as a similar distinction. The contract was merely a wager to be determined by the rise or fall of stock; if it rose, the seller paid the difference to the buyer proportioned to the sum determined by the same...
Page 120 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 5 - For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.