Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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... Mr. EUGENE SCHUYLER , under the direction of Professor JAMES J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL , of Hartford , well known as HADLEY , of Yale College . The derivation of a number of words of Indian origin has been furnished by the Hon . iv PREFACE .
... Mr. EUGENE SCHUYLER , under the direction of Professor JAMES J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL , of Hartford , well known as HADLEY , of Yale College . The derivation of a number of words of Indian origin has been furnished by the Hon . iv PREFACE .
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... origin of our own . The chief value of a dictionary consists in its Definitions ; -in giving a clear , full , and accurate exhibition of all the various shades of meaning which belong , by established usage , to the words of a language ...
... origin of our own . The chief value of a dictionary consists in its Definitions ; -in giving a clear , full , and accurate exhibition of all the various shades of meaning which belong , by established usage , to the words of a language ...
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... origin and their present use in England . Notes have also been added to some words which are peculiar to our country ; but their number is comparatively small . In reference to Orthography , some important alterations have been made ...
... origin and their present use in England . Notes have also been added to some words which are peculiar to our country ; but their number is comparatively small . In reference to Orthography , some important alterations have been made ...
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... origin and progress of our language , much less of other languages . I limited my views to the correcting of certain errors in the best English dictionaries , and to the supplying of words in which they are deficient . But after writing ...
... origin and progress of our language , much less of other languages . I limited my views to the correcting of certain errors in the best English dictionaries , and to the supplying of words in which they are deficient . But after writing ...
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... origin and principles of our vernacular language , and especially a particular examination of the best English writers , with a view to a comparison of their style and phraseology with those of the best American writers , and with our ...
... origin and principles of our vernacular language , and especially a particular examination of the best English writers , with a view to a comparison of their style and phraseology with those of the best American writers , and with our ...
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Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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,