English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations : Drawn from the Best WritersHarper & Brothers, 1850 - 536 страници |
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... according to the extent or universality of their acceptation , placing those first which had the most general sense and application , and the rest in order . By this plan I found myself greatly aided in analyzing their differences , and ...
... according to the extent or universality of their acceptation , placing those first which had the most general sense and application , and the rest in order . By this plan I found myself greatly aided in analyzing their differences , and ...
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... according to the dictates of my mind will meet the approbation of those whose good opinion I am most solicitous to obtain . Should any object to the introduction of morality in a work of science , I beg them to consider , that a writer ...
... according to the dictates of my mind will meet the approbation of those whose good opinion I am most solicitous to obtain . Should any object to the introduction of morality in a work of science , I beg them to consider , that a writer ...
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... according to his ability . Faculty and talent both owe their being to nature ; Of singing thou hast got the reputation , Good Thyrsis ; mine I yield to thy ability . but the faculty may be either physical or mental ; the My heart doth ...
... according to his ability . Faculty and talent both owe their being to nature ; Of singing thou hast got the reputation , Good Thyrsis ; mine I yield to thy ability . but the faculty may be either physical or mental ; the My heart doth ...
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... according to the importance of the object . Hence , it is obvious , that to be sensible is a desirable thing ; but to be judicious is an indispensable requisite . DISCERNMENT , PENETRATION , DISCRIMI- towards discrimination ; he who can ...
... according to the importance of the object . Hence , it is obvious , that to be sensible is a desirable thing ; but to be judicious is an indispensable requisite . DISCERNMENT , PENETRATION , DISCRIMI- towards discrimination ; he who can ...
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... according to the state of the sensible organs , and the perceptive faculty , ideas are faint or vivid , vague or distinct , according to • Conceiving is employed with regard to matters of the nature of the perception , conceptions are ...
... according to the state of the sensible organs , and the perceptive faculty , ideas are faint or vivid , vague or distinct , according to • Conceiving is employed with regard to matters of the nature of the perception , conceptions are ...
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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 indulgence inferiour judgement labour Latin latter less likewise Low German manner marks means ment mind mode 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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Страница 350 - 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...
Страница 328 - O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excell'd Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet...
Страница 66 - With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Страница 293 - The kings of Granajah and of the Six Nations believe that it was created with the earth, and produced on the same day with the sun and moon. But for my own part, by the best information that I could get of this matter, I am apt to think that this prodigious pile was fashioned into the shape it now bears by several tools and instruments of which they have a wonderful variety in this country.
Страница 344 - Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low...
Страница 302 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door...
Страница 286 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength > Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Страница 285 - ... and in some measure reduced that part of the human figure to the beautiful globular form, which is natural to it. We have for a great while expected what kind of ornament would be substituted in the place of those antiquated commodes. But our female projectors were all the last summer so taken up with the improvement of their petticoats, that they had not time to attend to...
Страница 258 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Страница 177 - The beauties of the most stately garden or palace lie in a narrow compass; the imagination immediately runs them over, and requires something else to gratify her ; but in the wide fields of nature, the sight wanders up and down without confinement, and is fed with an infinite variety of images, without any certain stint or number.