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... explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous luxuriance over their productions . The academicians of France , indeed , rejected terms of science ...
... explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous luxuriance over their productions . The academicians of France , indeed , rejected terms of science ...
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... explanation , not more obscure than the word itself . Yet it is to be considered , that , if the names of animals be in- serted , we must admit those which are more known , as well as those with which we are , by accident , less ...
... explanation , not more obscure than the word itself . Yet it is to be considered , that , if the names of animals be in- serted , we must admit those which are more known , as well as those with which we are , by accident , less ...
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... explained by their af- finity to others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English etymologies . When the word is easily deduced from a Saxon ori- ginal , I shall not often enquire further , since we know not ...
... explained by their af- finity to others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English etymologies . When the word is easily deduced from a Saxon ori- ginal , I shall not often enquire further , since we know not ...
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... explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those forms where it is used in a man- ner ... explain them . With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have C 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
... explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those forms where it is used in a man- ner ... explain them . With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have C 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
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... explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet , whether , instead of this explanation , a title of honour next in degree to that of baron , it would be better to mention more particularly the creation ...
... explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet , whether , instead of this explanation , a title of honour next in degree to that of baron , it would be better to mention more particularly the creation ...
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