Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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الصفحة 1501
... give first the primitive signification of every word , and to develop and arrange the dependent meanings in the order in which they were derived . But his theory in respect to these and other points was better than his practice . Of ...
... give first the primitive signification of every word , and to develop and arrange the dependent meanings in the order in which they were derived . But his theory in respect to these and other points was better than his practice . Of ...
الصفحة 1504
... give to the work of revision the full measure of his well - known energy and sagacious judgment . In accordance with this rule , great pains have been taken , 1. To contract and condense the definitions into as few general heads , or ...
... give to the work of revision the full measure of his well - known energy and sagacious judgment . In accordance with this rule , great pains have been taken , 1. To contract and condense the definitions into as few general heads , or ...
الصفحة 1506
... give this edition of the Dictionary a great superiority over the former editions . In conclusion , the Editor desires to express his thanks to all the persons who have assisted in the preparation of the present edition , for the ...
... give this edition of the Dictionary a great superiority over the former editions . In conclusion , the Editor desires to express his thanks to all the persons who have assisted in the preparation of the present edition , for the ...
الصفحة 1511
... give a better plea than any other letter of the alphabet for being doubled in this situation , I must , in the style of Lucian , in his trial of the letter T , declare for an expulsion . " These were the deliberate and latest opinions ...
... give a better plea than any other letter of the alphabet for being doubled in this situation , I must , in the style of Lucian , in his trial of the letter T , declare for an expulsion . " These were the deliberate and latest opinions ...
الصفحة 1512
Noah Webster Noah Porter. the participle should be spelt ( for he did not give participles in his Dictionary ) , and had altered six or eight words , as worshipper into worshiper , traveller into traveler , & c . , the error would ...
Noah Webster Noah Porter. the participle should be spelt ( for he did not give participles in his Dictionary ) , and had altered six or eight words , as worshipper into worshiper , traveller into traveler , & c . , the error would ...
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14th century accent American Anat ancient Anglo-Saxon appellation applied called Carlyle celebrated Celt century character Charles Chaucer Chem Christian church Colloq color comedy corruption Dictionary distinguished Doctor Don Quixote Duke Dutch England English especially France François French G. H. Lewes genus German Greek Henry hero inflection island Italian J. S. Mill Jean John King knight lady land language Latin Lord Louis Macaulay name given novel origin Orlando Furioso Ornith painter Pathol perf person Pertaining philosopher physician plants Plur poem poet popular Prefix pron pronounced pronunciation Queen represented river romance Saint Scottish Shak Shakespeare's sing sometimes sound Spanish speare's statesman syllable Thomas tion town v. t. Add verbs Vocabulary vowel Webster William words writer written Yale College Zool
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الصفحة 1619 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
الصفحة 1636 - France, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication.
الصفحة 1616 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
الصفحة 1520 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
الصفحة 1624 - Audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
الصفحة 1629 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
الصفحة 1624 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
الصفحة 1642 - Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
الصفحة 1636 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
الصفحة 1642 - City lay through the midst of it. Now this valley is a very solitary place ; the prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought, and of the Shadow of Death, a land that no man," but a Christian, " passeth through, and where no man dwelt,