English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations. Drawn from the Best WritersHarper, 1846 - 472 páginas |
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... implies a direct charge upon the well without much instruction ; he is skilful in drawing understanding , which is not implied by the insuffi if he understands it both in theory and practice ; he is ciency and incompetency . An ...
... implies a direct charge upon the well without much instruction ; he is skilful in drawing understanding , which is not implied by the insuffi if he understands it both in theory and practice ; he is ciency and incompetency . An ...
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... implies to show reverence , from revereor , to stand in awe of : Venerate , in Latin vene- beauty , signifying to ... imply belonging to heaven ; but the former , from the Latin cœlestum , signifies belonging to the heaven of heathens ...
... implies to show reverence , from revereor , to stand in awe of : Venerate , in Latin vene- beauty , signifying to ... imply belonging to heaven ; but the former , from the Latin cœlestum , signifies belonging to the heaven of heathens ...
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... implies the ceremony of marrying , inasmuch as it is binding upon the parties . Nuptials comes from the Latin nubo to veil , because the Roman ladies were veiled at the time of marriage : hence the word has been put for the whole ...
... implies the ceremony of marrying , inasmuch as it is binding upon the parties . Nuptials comes from the Latin nubo to veil , because the Roman ladies were veiled at the time of marriage : hence the word has been put for the whole ...
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... implies simply an equivalent given or offered for something ; I would earnestly desire the story - teller to ... imply a partial abstinence from particular food ; but fast signifies an abstinence from food altogether ; ' I am verily ...
... implies simply an equivalent given or offered for something ; I would earnestly desire the story - teller to ... imply a partial abstinence from particular food ; but fast signifies an abstinence from food altogether ; ' I am verily ...
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... imply the laying aside all consistently with its dignity : but these terms are not the high pretensions which ... implies to put out of favour , which is always at tended more or less with circumstances of ignominy , and reflects ...
... imply the laying aside all consistently with its dignity : but these terms are not the high pretensions which ... implies to put out of favour , which is always at tended more or less with circumstances of ignominy , and reflects ...
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according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense body cause cern character characteristick Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct consequence degree denotes disposition distinction Divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets errour evil exertion expresses favour fear feeling former French frequently friends generick German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence honour human humour idea implies individual inferiour judgement labour Latin latter less likewise Low German manner marks means ment mind mode moral nature ness never nexion object offender one's opinion opposed ordinary ourselves pain participle particular passions perly person Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce publick racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul speak species specifick spects spirit superiour supposed temper tion Titus Manlius Torquatus tremour uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word
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Página 72 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 346 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Página 342 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Página 76 - I have already mentioned, which seems very naturally deducible from the foregoing considerations. If the scale of being rises by such a regular progress, so high as man, we may by a parity of reason suppose that it still proceeds gradually...
Página 100 - He with his thunder : and till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? yet not for those, Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change...
Página 204 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 65 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 223 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Página 117 - All this ? ay, more : Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 78 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.