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 - English Language |
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... , con- ducted by one man . Modern accuracy has rendered its defects more apparent ; and though it still stands as the capital work of the kind in the language , its authority as a standard is somewhat LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... , con- ducted by one man . Modern accuracy has rendered its defects more apparent ; and though it still stands as the capital work of the kind in the language , its authority as a standard is somewhat LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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... authority as a standard is somewhat depreciated . In a pecuniary light the author received only a temporary benefit from it , for at the time of publication he had been paid more than the stipu- lated sum . He was therefore still ...
... authority as a standard is somewhat depreciated . In a pecuniary light the author received only a temporary benefit from it , for at the time of publication he had been paid more than the stipu- lated sum . He was therefore still ...
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... authority . Having therefore no assistance but from general grammar , I applied myself to the perusal of our writers ; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illus → trate any word or phrase , accumulated in time the ...
... authority . Having therefore no assistance but from general grammar , I applied myself to the perusal of our writers ; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illus → trate any word or phrase , accumulated in time the ...
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... authority , and which being not admitted into general use , stand yet as candidates or probationers , and must depend for their adoption on the suffrage of futurity . The words which our authors have introduced by their knowledge of ...
... authority , and which being not admitted into general use , stand yet as candidates or probationers , and must depend for their adoption on the suffrage of futurity . The words which our authors have introduced by their knowledge of ...
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... authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to the chronological order , that is otherwise observed . Some words , indeed , stand unsupported by any authority , but they are com- monly derivative nouns or adverbs , formed from ...
... authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to the chronological order , that is otherwise observed . Some words , indeed , stand unsupported by any authority , but they are com- monly derivative nouns or adverbs , formed from ...
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.