always guile in his heart and on his tongue jugglers practise various deceptions in the performance of their tricks for the entertainment of the populace. Parasites and sycophants are obliged to have recourse to deceit.

Thus his (Cromwell's) whole conduct was made up of artifice and deceit. (Lingard's Hist.) The faces of men seemed to him as masks; he felt everywhere the presence of deceit. (Bulw. Stud.)

Strange tidings these to tell a world, who treat
All but their own experience as deceit!

(W. Cowper's Poems.)

All the joy of sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination that realizes the event, however fictitious, so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever emotions could be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. (Johnson.)

1. DECENCY, 2. DECORUM.

1. Anstand, Wohlanständigkeit, Schicklichkeit, Sittsamkeit; 2. Wohl= stand, Schicklichkeit.

Das erste Hauptwort bezeichnet eines Mannes Aufführung, das zweite sein Betragen.

Indecency is a vice; it is the violation of public or private morals; indecorum is a fault; it offends the feelings of those who witness it.

Even religion itself, unless decency be the handmaid which waits upon her, is apt to make people appear guilty of sourness and ill-humour. (Spectator.)

They looked on Cromwell as the favourite of God, under the special guidance of the Holy Spirit, and honoured with communications from heaven; and he, on his part, was careful, by the piety of his language, by the strict decorum of his court, and by his zeal for the diffusion of godliness, to preserve and strengthen such impressions.

(Lingard's hist. of Engl.)

SO no

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no one who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all; author who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all: the truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.

(Sterne's T. Shandy.)

Our decrees

Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;
And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.

(Shaksp. Meas. for Meas.)

1. DEITY, 2. DIVINITY.

1. Gottheit; 2. Gottheit.

Das erste Hauptwort ein göttliches Wesen, der heidnische Gott; das zweite das Wesen Gottes, die göttliche Natur und Macht.

The deities of the heathens had little of divinity in them. The di vinity of our Saviour is a fundamental article in the Christian faith.

The first original of the dramas was religious worship consisting only of a chorus, which was nothing else but a hymn to a deity.

(Addison.) But first, according to the good old custom of deities, she (Criticism) cast about to change her shape, for fear the divinity of her countenance might dazzle his mortal sight, and over-charge the rest of his senses. (Swift's Tale.)

Oh! who could, e'en in bondage, tread the plains
Of glorious Greece, nor feel his spirit rise
Kindling within him? who, with heart and eyes,
Could walk where Liberty had been, nor see
The shining foot - prints of her Deity,

Nor feel those god-like breathings in the air,
Which mutely told her spirit had been there?

A Deity believ'd, is joy begun;
A Deity ador'd, is joy advanc'd;
A Deity belov'd, is joy matur'd.

(Moor's Lalla Rookh.)

(Young's N. Thoughts.)

Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity which stirs within us.

(Addison's Cato.)

1. To DELAY, 2. DEFER, 3. POSTPONE. 1. Aufschieben, verschieben, anstehen lassen, aufhalten; 2. aufschieben, verschieben, anstehen lassen; 3. aufschieben, hintansehen.

Das erste Zeitwort bedeutet bloß: eine Handlung nicht beginnen, sie auf Lage, Stunden, Minuten verschieben; die Ursache liegt größtentheils in der aufschiebenden Person. Das zweite und dritte Zeitwort bezeichnet, den Anfang einer Handlung in eine entferntere Periode verlegen, fie auf Monate oder Wochen verschieben; es findet ein willkührlicher, jedoch durch die umstånde gerechtfertigter Bewegungsgrund Statt, und bei postpone jederzeit eine Bezugnahme, Beziehung.

A tardy debtor delays the settlement of his accounts. We may delay answering a letter. A person may defer his visit from month to month. A merchant defers the shipment of any goods in consequence of the receipt of fresh intelligence. Never defer that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. He postpones his visit until the commencement of a new year. He postponed the shipment until after the arrival of the expected fleet.

I have delayed writing to you in expectation of hearing farther from you upon the subject of your stay at college. (Chatham's Letters.)

Her Majesty's arrival, like other great events, was delayed from hour to hour; and it was now announced by a breathless post, that her Majesty being detained by her gracious desire, to receive the hommage of her lieges, who had thronged to wait upon her at Warwick, it would be the hour of twilight are she entered the castle.

(W. Scott's Kenilworth.)

In late years, and especially in the northern parts of the island, a good deal of corn is abroad at the beginning of September, on which account, the day on which partridge - shooting commences, has of late

been deferred by the legislature from the 1st to the 14th of this month.

(Aikin's Nat. Hist.) When I postponed to another summer my journey to England, could I apprehend that I never should see her again? (Gibbon.)

I postponed, however, doing so, from time to time, in the impression that their grave and serious character was not likely to command an attentive audience with the many, at all commensurate with the exaggerated and enthusiastic estimate already conceived of their value by the few. (Bulw. Stud.)

1. DELIGHTFUL, 2. CHARMING.

1. Ergöglich, angenehm; 2. bezaubernd, reizend, einnehmend. Das erste wird entweder auf körperliche oder geistige Gegenstånde, das zweite größtentheils auf Gegenstånde der Empfindung, des Gefühls an= gewendet.

This is a delightful or charming prospect. The music of this opera is charming. It is a delightful employment to relieve distress, and a delightful spectacle to see a family living together in love and harmony.But it was only in secret that she laboured at this delusive, but delightful architecture. (W. Scott's Bride of Lam.) The child hearkens with delight to the tales of his nurse, he learns to read, and he devours with eagerness fabulous legends and novels. (Bolingbroke's Lett.) Viewing the various witnesses of a social system which has past from the world for ever a stranger from that remote and barbarian isle which the imperial Roman shivered when he named paused amidst the delights of the soft Campania

and composed this History!
(Bulwer's Last days of Pompeii.)
thy sight!

of lost delight!

(T. Campbell's Gertrude.)

Come, peace of mind, delightful guest!
Return, and make thy downy nest
Once more in this sad heart.

(W. Cowper's Poems.)

Nothing can be wore magnificent than the figure which Jupiter makes in the first Iliad, nor more charming than that of Venus in the first Aeneid. (Addison.)

1. To DEMAND, 2. REQUIRE.

1. Begehren, fordern, verlangen; 2 fordern, verlangen, nothwendig

machen.

Das erste Zeitwort bedeutet, das Schuldige und Gebührende fordern, es wird auf wichtige, dringende und gefährliche Unternehmungen angewen= das zweite das, welches wir gethan zu sehen wünschen und erwarten; es wird von schwierigen Unternehmungen gesagt.

det;

The creditor makes a demand on the debtor; the master requires a certain portion of duty from his servant; it is unjust to demand of a person what he has no right to give. A person demands admittance when it is not voluntarily granted, he requires respectful deportment from those who are subordinate to him. Things of urgency and moment demand immediate attention; difficult matters require a steady attention.

Hear, all ye Trojans! all ye Grecian bands,
What Paris, author of the war, demands,

(Pope.)

The chase of the wolf, the wild boar, or even the timid stag, required sylvan arms; the wild cattle still more demanded this equipment of war-bows and shafts, boar - spears and sharp swords, and other tools of the chase similar to those used in actual war.

(W. Scott's Castle dangerous.)

It did, indeed, require a greater self-control than the reader may at first imagine, to reject much that was most inviting in itself; but which, while it might have added attraction to parts of the work, would have been injurious to the symmetry of the whole.

(Bulwer's Last days.)

I am very much pleased that you approve what was sent, because I remember to have heard a great man say, that nothing required more judgment than making a present; which, when it is done to those of high rank, ought to be of something that is not readily got for money.

(Swift's Lett.)

(Goldsmith.)

The heart requires more service than the tongue
Can, at its best, perform.

(Knowles's Virginius.)

1. To DEMUR, 2. HESITATE.

1. Unschlüssig, ungewiß sein, in Zweifel stehen, Anstand nehmen ; 2. zweifelhaft, unschlüssig sein, Bedenken tragen.

Das erste Zeitwort segt Zweifel oder Schwierigkeit, aber auch Vorsicht voraus; das zweite schwankendes Urtheil, aber auch Wankelmuth.

When a proposition appears to be unjust, we demur in supporting it.
It is the business of a counsellor to make demurs.
When a request

of a dubious nature is made to us, we hesitate in complying with it. And is Lorenzo a demurrer still?

Pride in thy parths provokes thee to contest

Truths, which contested, put thy parts to shame.

(Young's Night Thoughts.)

I want no solicitations for me to comply where it would be ungenerous for me to refuse; for can I hesitate a moment to take upon myself the protection of a daughter of Correllius?

(Letters of Pliny, by Melmoth.)

A spirit of revenge makes him curse the Grecians, when they hesitate to accept Hector's challenge.

(Pope.)

Immediately a page brought a silver goblet of wine. The Emperor put his lips to it, though he scarce tasted the liquor, then commanded it to be handed to Hereward, and bade the soldier drink. The Saxon did not wait till he was desired a second time, but took off the contents without hesitation. (W. Scott's Rob. of Paris.)

1. To DENY, 2. REFUSE.

1. Abschlagen, verweigern, versagen; 2. verweigern, abschlagen.

Das erste Zeitwort betrifft Facta und bedeutet ein mündliches Abschlagen; zuweilen wird es auch in Beziehung auf das, was uns angemessen ist, auf unsere eigenen Genüsse gebraucht, und ist oft die Handlung unbekannter Wirkenden. Das zweite betrifft Wünsche oder Bitten, was Änderen_angemessen ist, ein Abschlagen in Bezug auf die Zukunft, und ist jederzeit eine persön= liche, absichtliche Handlung.

We deny a person a thing; we refuse his request. Some Christians think it very meritorious to deny themselves their usual quantity of food at certain times; they are however but sorry professors of Christianity if they refuse at the same time to give of their substance to the poor. We are sometimes denied by circumstances the consolation of seeing our friends before they die; when prisoners want to see their friends for sinister purposes they must be refused.

I must confess, I have been apt sometimes to be very angry with our language, for having denied us the use of the word patria, and afforded us no other name to express our native community, than that of country. (Shaftsbury's Char.)

The moment she heard the messenger was blind, Jone felt the impossibility of returning a chilling reply. Glaucus had chosen a herald that was indeed sacred a herald that could not be denied.

(Bulwer's Last days of Pompeii.)

Heaven had given to Glaucus every blessing but one: it had given him beauty, health, fortune, genius, illustrious descent, a heart of fire, a mind of poetry; but it had denied him the heritage of freedom.

(Bulwer's Pompeii.) Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?

They have travell'd hard to-night? Mere fetches;

The images of revolt and flying off!

Fetch me a better answer.

1. DESERT, 2. MERIT, 3. WORTH.

1. Das Verdienst; 2. das Verdienst; 3. Werth.

Das erste Hauptwort wird für gute und schlechte Handlungen gebraucht; das Verdienst besteht in der vollbrachten Handlung, dem Werke oder dem geleisteten Dienste es ist ein Ausdruck für gewöhnliche Erheblichkeit. Das zweite wird nur für gute Handlungen gebraucht, bezieht sich auf den Cha= rakter des Wirkenden oder auf die Art der Handlung, und wird auf Gegenstånde von größerer Wichtigkeit angewendet; das dritte ist mit dem zweiten genau verwandt, und bezeichnet noch besonders einen Werth hinsichts`moralischer Eigenschaften.