A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is prefixed, an English grammar. To this ed. are added, a history of the English language [&c.].1768 |
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... caufe , men may wel perceyve , that the lond and the fee ben of rownde fcapp and forme . For the partie of the firmament fchewethe in o contree , that fche wethe not in another contree . And men may well preven be experience and fotyle ...
... caufe , men may wel perceyve , that the lond and the fee ben of rownde fcapp and forme . For the partie of the firmament fchewethe in o contree , that fche wethe not in another contree . And men may well preven be experience and fotyle ...
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... caufe of that fhall fall . The history of our language is now brought to the point at which the hiftory of our poetry is generally fuppofed to commence , the time of the illuftrious Geoffry Chaucer , who may per- haps , with great ...
... caufe of that fhall fall . The history of our language is now brought to the point at which the hiftory of our poetry is generally fuppofed to commence , the time of the illuftrious Geoffry Chaucer , who may per- haps , with great ...
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... caufe is this . Truite wel that at the conclufions that have be founden , or ells poffiblye might be founde in fo noble an in- ftrument as in the aftrolabye , ben unknowen perfitely to anye mortal man in this region , as I fuppole ...
... caufe is this . Truite wel that at the conclufions that have be founden , or ells poffiblye might be founde in fo noble an in- ftrument as in the aftrolabye , ben unknowen perfitely to anye mortal man in this region , as I fuppole ...
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... caufe is , for that curious endityng and hard fentences is ful bevy at ones , for fuch a childe to lerne . And the feconde caufe is this , that fothely me femeth better to written unto a child twife a gode fen- tence , than he foriete ...
... caufe is , for that curious endityng and hard fentences is ful bevy at ones , for fuch a childe to lerne . And the feconde caufe is this , that fothely me femeth better to written unto a child twife a gode fen- tence , than he foriete ...
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... caufe of this diverfyte . When Nembroth by Might , for his own Glorye , made and incorporate the first Realme , and fubduyd it to hymteli by Tyrannye , he would not have it governyd by any other Rule or Lawe , but by his own Will ; by ...
... caufe of this diverfyte . When Nembroth by Might , for his own Glorye , made and incorporate the first Realme , and fubduyd it to hymteli by Tyrannye , he would not have it governyd by any other Rule or Lawe , but by his own Will ; by ...
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