Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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... principles on which this science rests have been suggested and confirmed , and the methods have been determined by which future inves- tigations may be successfully prosecuted . It seemed necessary , first of all , that these new principles ...
... principles on which this science rests have been suggested and confirmed , and the methods have been determined by which future inves- tigations may be successfully prosecuted . It seemed necessary , first of all , that these new principles ...
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... principles which were adopted in the preparation of the successive editions of the work . The " Principles of Pronunciation , " originally prepared by Professor Goodrich for the edition of 1859 , have been carefully revised and much ...
... principles which were adopted in the preparation of the successive editions of the work . The " Principles of Pronunciation , " originally prepared by Professor Goodrich for the edition of 1859 , have been carefully revised and much ...
Էջ 1504
... principles which should be followed in the preparation of a popular English Dictionary . It is not practicable to enumerate here the works contained in the library of authorities furnished to the Editor and his associates by the ...
... principles which should be followed in the preparation of a popular English Dictionary . It is not practicable to enumerate here the works contained in the library of authorities furnished to the Editor and his associates by the ...
Էջ 1506
... principles adopted are stated at length and fully illustrated in the article on the Principles of Pronunciation , which was originally prepared by Professor Goodrich , and has been elaborated by Mr. Wheeler , with suggestions from able ...
... principles adopted are stated at length and fully illustrated in the article on the Principles of Pronunciation , which was originally prepared by Professor Goodrich , and has been elaborated by Mr. Wheeler , with suggestions from able ...
Էջ 1507
... PRINCIPLES OF PRONUNCIATION , · . Xl to lxiii VOWELS , . xli . V PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION OF 1847 , VOWELS IN MONOSYLLABLES AND ACCENTED SYLLABLES , xli xi REGULAR OR PROPER DIPHTHONGS , xliii PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1828 ...
... PRINCIPLES OF PRONUNCIATION , · . Xl to lxiii VOWELS , . xli . V PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION OF 1847 , VOWELS IN MONOSYLLABLES AND ACCENTED SYLLABLES , xli xi REGULAR OR PROPER DIPHTHONGS , xliii PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1828 ...
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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,