English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations. Drawn from the Best WritersHarper, 1846 - 472 pages |
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Page 85
... compounded of bishop and rick or reich empire , signifies the empire or government of a bishop : Diocess , in Greek dioixnais , compounded of did and okéw , signifies an administration throughout . Both these words describe the extent ...
... compounded of bishop and rick or reich empire , signifies the empire or government of a bishop : Diocess , in Greek dioixnais , compounded of did and okéw , signifies an administration throughout . Both these words describe the extent ...
Page 87
... compounded of the privative for and give ; and pardon , in French pardonner , compounded like- wise of the privative par ot per and donner to give , both signify not to give the punishment that is due , to relax from the rigour of ...
... compounded of the privative for and give ; and pardon , in French pardonner , compounded like- wise of the privative par ot per and donner to give , both signify not to give the punishment that is due , to relax from the rigour of ...
Page 94
... compounded of for , and the Saxon bodian , and the English bid , to offer or to declare , signifying to pronounce on futurity ; betoken signifies to serve as a token ; portend , in Latin portendo , compounded of por for pro and tendo ...
... compounded of for , and the Saxon bodian , and the English bid , to offer or to declare , signifying to pronounce on futurity ; betoken signifies to serve as a token ; portend , in Latin portendo , compounded of por for pro and tendo ...
Page 110
... compounded of up or upon , and braid or breed , signifies to hatch against one ; censure , in French censure , Latin censura , the censorship , or the office of censor ; the censor being a Roman magistrate , who took cognizance of the ...
... compounded of up or upon , and braid or breed , signifies to hatch against one ; censure , in French censure , Latin censura , the censorship , or the office of censor ; the censor being a Roman magistrate , who took cognizance of the ...
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... compounded of ac or ad and cuso or causa a cause or trial , signifies to bring to trial ; charge , from the word cargo a burden , signities to lay a burden ; impeach , in French empecher to hinder or disturb , compounded of em or in and ...
... compounded of ac or ad and cuso or causa a cause or trial , signifies to bring to trial ; charge , from the word cargo a burden , signities to lay a burden ; impeach , in French empecher to hinder or disturb , compounded of em or in and ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 117 - All this ? ay, more : Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 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.