A General Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language: To which is Added, a Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names, &cPeter Hill, 1814 - 407 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xix
... sort , con- sort ' ; con'test , contest ' ; con'tract , contract ' ; con'trast , contrast ' ; con'verse , converse ' ; con'- vert , convert ' ; con'vict , convict ' . Des'ert , de- SYLLABICATION - means a dividing of words into portions ...
... sort , con- sort ' ; con'test , contest ' ; con'tract , contract ' ; con'trast , contrast ' ; con'verse , converse ' ; con'- vert , convert ' ; con'vict , convict ' . Des'ert , de- SYLLABICATION - means a dividing of words into portions ...
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... sort of volatile salt . Properly Ammoniac Armorer , âr'mur - er , n . he that makes armour or weapons ; he that dresses another in armour Armorial , ǎr - mō're - al , a . belonging to the arms or escutcheon of a family Armory , âr'mur ...
... sort of volatile salt . Properly Ammoniac Armorer , âr'mur - er , n . he that makes armour or weapons ; he that dresses another in armour Armorial , ǎr - mō're - al , a . belonging to the arms or escutcheon of a family Armory , âr'mur ...
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... sort ; while [ smell Asafoetida , as - a - fet'è - da , n . a gum of an offensive Asbestos , az - bes'tus , n . a sort of native fossil stone , which may be split into threads and filaments , and which fire cannot consume Ascend , as ...
... sort ; while [ smell Asafoetida , as - a - fet'è - da , n . a gum of an offensive Asbestos , az - bes'tus , n . a sort of native fossil stone , which may be split into threads and filaments , and which fire cannot consume Ascend , as ...
الصفحة 33
... sort of Indian cane Bamboozle , bam - bû'zl , v . to deceive ; to impose upon ; to confound Ban , ban , n . public notice ; an interdiction Banana - tree , ba - nā'na - trē , n . a sort of plantain Band , band , n . any thing to bind ...
... sort of Indian cane Bamboozle , bam - bû'zl , v . to deceive ; to impose upon ; to confound Ban , ban , n . public notice ; an interdiction Banana - tree , ba - nā'na - trē , n . a sort of plantain Band , band , n . any thing to bind ...
الصفحة 34
... cock- atrice ; a sort of cannon or great gun Basin ba'sn , n . a reservoir of water ; a place near the sea , where ships may ride in safety ; a vessel to hold water for washing Basis , ba'sis , n . the foundation of any BAR 34 BAS.
... cock- atrice ; a sort of cannon or great gun Basin ba'sn , n . a reservoir of water ; a place near the sea , where ships may ride in safety ; a vessel to hold water for washing Basis , ba'sis , n . the foundation of any BAR 34 BAS.
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accent animal Bacchus beat belonging bird bird of prey body Cæsura censure church chyle cloth coarse colour conj consisting consonant contract corn corrupt cover Cybele daughter diphthong disease dress false female fire fish flower force fruit give goddess grow hârn Hecuba herb honour horse insect instrument interj join Jupiter kind king kwit liquor loose lying manner mark marriage mean measure medicine ment metal motion musical ness noise noun ornament Orthoepy pain peevish person pertaining Phrygia piece plant play plural prep pret Priam pron pronounced pronunciation pustule quick racter relating resembling round sentence sharp ship shut sing soft sort sound species stone substance syllable Thessaly thin thing tion tree turn University of Edinburgh verb verse vessel violent vowel wind woman wood words
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الصفحة xxxi - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end; Why doing, sufFring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
الصفحة xxxi - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
الصفحة xxiv - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة xxiv - As we perceive the shadow to have moved along the dial, but did not perceive it moving ; and it appears that the grass has grown, though nobody ever saw it grow : so the advances we make in knowledge, as they consist of such minute steps, are only perceivable by the distance gone over.
الصفحة xxxv - Man's happiness, or misery, are, in a great measure put into his own hands. Man is not such a machine as a clock or a watch, which move merely as they are moved.
الصفحة xxxi - Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike...
الصفحة xxx - What could make a stronger impression,' says he, ' than those exclamations of Gracchus ?—" Whither shall I turn ? Wretch that I am! to what place betake myself? Shall I go to the Capitol ? Alas ! it is overflowed with my brother's blood. Or shall I retire to my house ? Yet there I behold my mother plunged in misery, weeping and despairing!
الصفحة xxv - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
الصفحة xxx - Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
الصفحة xxiv - The discourse consisted of two parts : in the first was shown the necessity of fighting ; in the second, the advantages that would arise from it.