A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Том 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
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... According to his own account , he composed it in the evenings of one week , sent it to the press in portions as it was writ- ten , and never re - perused it when finished . It is , however , one of his most splendid performances ...
... According to his own account , he composed it in the evenings of one week , sent it to the press in portions as it was writ- ten , and never re - perused it when finished . It is , however , one of his most splendid performances ...
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... according to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philosophers ...
... according to the time of their authors . When I first collected these authorities , I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philosophers ...
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... according therefore we write stick , block , which were ori- to English orthography , never ends a word ; ginally sticke , blocke . In such words C is now mute . It is used before i and r , as clock , cross . D Is uniform in its sound ...
... according therefore we write stick , block , which were ori- to English orthography , never ends a word ; ginally sticke , blocke . In such words C is now mute . It is used before i and r , as clock , cross . D Is uniform in its sound ...
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... according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and concluding that the whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner , have often established the jargon of the lowest of the peo ple as the model ...
... according to the cursory speech of those with whom they happened to converse ; and concluding that the whole nation combines to vitiate language in one manner , have often established the jargon of the lowest of the peo ple as the model ...
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... according to the diver- sities of genius , as a guide to reformers , or ter- tour to innovators . One of the first who proposed a scheme of regular orthography , was Sir Thomas Smith , secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth , a man of ...
... according to the diver- sities of genius , as a guide to reformers , or ter- tour to innovators . One of the first who proposed a scheme of regular orthography , was Sir Thomas Smith , secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth , a man of ...
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Addison ancient animal Arbuthnot arms Atterbury Bacon bear beat Ben Jonson blood body Boyle break breast breath Brown's Vulgar Errours called cause church Clarendon colour Corvell death derived Dict doth Dryd Dryden Dutch earth English eyes Fairy Queen fear fire French fruit give grace ground grow hand hath head heart heav'n Henry VII honour Hooker horse Hudibras kind king King Lear kyng L'Estrange language Latin live Locke lord manner ment Milton mind motion nature never noun Opticks Paradise Lost particle person plant Pope preterit prince Quincy Saxon sense Shaks Shaksp Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Sidney signifies sometimes soul sound South Spenser spirit sweet Swift syllable Tatler thee thing thou thought Tillotson tion tongue tree unto verb virtue Waller Watts wind word
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