English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private TuitionD. Appleton, 1850 - 344 páginas |
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... applied to language does not admit of the same extension . Thus , though the word table will rep- resent , generally , a flat substance supported by legs , it will not stand for the many varieties of this piece of furniture which might ...
... applied to language does not admit of the same extension . Thus , though the word table will rep- resent , generally , a flat substance supported by legs , it will not stand for the many varieties of this piece of furniture which might ...
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... applied to every object of human knowledge , and hence it is generally received as the only safe road in which to proceed in every description of study . Language , among other objects of study , has been subjected to the application of ...
... applied to every object of human knowledge , and hence it is generally received as the only safe road in which to proceed in every description of study . Language , among other objects of study , has been subjected to the application of ...
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... applying this law to our own case , ) that at the Norman conquest in 1066 , many words were intro- duced by the conquerors into England which were identical in meaning with others in common use among the people of the country before the ...
... applying this law to our own case , ) that at the Norman conquest in 1066 , many words were intro- duced by the conquerors into England which were identical in meaning with others in common use among the people of the country before the ...
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... applied so extensively to language as in natural philosophy , will in many cases assist in discovering differ- ences not so easily perceived by the application of any other principle . Rejecting the terms kingdom and class , we may ...
... applied so extensively to language as in natural philosophy , will in many cases assist in discovering differ- ences not so easily perceived by the application of any other principle . Rejecting the terms kingdom and class , we may ...
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... applied so extensively to objects of sense . It must here again be remembered that this principle of intensity has no reference to comparison , as applied to a grammatical class of words , but imports a higher degree , as marked by the ...
... applied so extensively to objects of sense . It must here again be remembered that this principle of intensity has no reference to comparison , as applied to a grammatical class of words , but imports a higher degree , as marked by the ...
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Página 321 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 44 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Página 110 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 195 - ... ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed. Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark!
Página 39 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 293 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Página 60 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 19 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Página 177 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving : with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable.
Página 125 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.