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Page viii
... leave it in his power But where to begin , and when I have once begun how to leave off I know not : the faults are fo many , and of fo many forts , that the variety binders all judgment of this kind . However if I can out of thefe ...
... leave it in his power But where to begin , and when I have once begun how to leave off I know not : the faults are fo many , and of fo many forts , that the variety binders all judgment of this kind . However if I can out of thefe ...
Page xx
... leave to ex- plain a paffage in Chaucer . [ In the Reve's Tale . Urry's edition . p . 31. † . 828. ] " He was a Markit beter at the full . " i . e . fays the Glossary , " one that makes quarrels in " markets . " But a market beter , is ...
... leave to ex- plain a paffage in Chaucer . [ In the Reve's Tale . Urry's edition . p . 31. † . 828. ] " He was a Markit beter at the full . " i . e . fays the Glossary , " one that makes quarrels in " markets . " But a market beter , is ...
Page xxxiii
... leave , could not do . For my own part , I thought an Eyas hawk , was a full fledged hawk just taken from the nest or eyry . The etymology is plain , ni- dus , in the barbarous Latinity , nidafius . Ital . Nidiace . Gall . Niais . an ...
... leave , could not do . For my own part , I thought an Eyas hawk , was a full fledged hawk just taken from the nest or eyry . The etymology is plain , ni- dus , in the barbarous Latinity , nidafius . Ital . Nidiace . Gall . Niais . an ...
Page xxxviii
... leave it to thy own reflection . 66 " Sets up his reft : Is a phrafe taken from mi- « litary exercife . When gunpowder was first in- vented , its force was very weak compared to that in prefent ufe . This neceffarily required fire ...
... leave it to thy own reflection . 66 " Sets up his reft : Is a phrafe taken from mi- « litary exercife . When gunpowder was first in- vented , its force was very weak compared to that in prefent ufe . This neceffarily required fire ...
Page xl
... leave their fport : nine - men's morris ; in the fame manner as a Three - men Beetle , i . e . what requires three men to use it ; a Three - men fong , a fong to be fung by three men . But where ever I turn my eye , I fee fuch altera ...
... leave their fport : nine - men's morris ; in the fame manner as a Three - men Beetle , i . e . what requires three men to use it ; a Three - men fong , a fong to be fung by three men . But where ever I turn my eye , I fee fuch altera ...
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