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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... measure cafual and mutable ; many of their terms are formed for fome temporary or local convenience , and though current at certain times and places , are in others utterly unknown . This fugitive cant , which is always in a state of ...
... measure cafual and mutable ; many of their terms are formed for fome temporary or local convenience , and though current at certain times and places , are in others utterly unknown . This fugitive cant , which is always in a state of ...
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... measure its defires by its ftrength . The French language has vitibly changed under the infpection of the academy ; the ftile of Amelot's tranflation of father Paul is obferved by Le Courayer to be un peu passè ; and no Italian will ...
... measure its defires by its ftrength . The French language has vitibly changed under the infpection of the academy ; the ftile of Amelot's tranflation of father Paul is obferved by Le Courayer to be un peu passè ; and no Italian will ...
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... measure of eight fyllables , and the fecond is a natural introduc- tion to Robert of Gloucester , being compofed in the fame measure , which , however rude and barbarous it may feem , taught the way to the Alexandrines of the French ...
... measure of eight fyllables , and the fecond is a natural introduc- tion to Robert of Gloucester , being compofed in the fame measure , which , however rude and barbarous it may feem , taught the way to the Alexandrines of the French ...
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... measure the state of European science as well as of the English tongue ; and the fe- cond , because it is valuable for the force of thought and beauty of expreffion . • I ' N that lond , ne in many othere bezonde that , no man may fee ...
... measure the state of European science as well as of the English tongue ; and the fe- cond , because it is valuable for the force of thought and beauty of expreffion . • I ' N that lond , ne in many othere bezonde that , no man may fee ...
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... measures , and one as the oldest composition which I have found in blank was verie . And now haue lost aguyne all that I gat , Wherefore when I thinke on you nowe and than , And in my mynde remember this and that , Ye may not blame me ...
... measures , and one as the oldest composition which I have found in blank was verie . And now haue lost aguyne all that I gat , Wherefore when I thinke on you nowe and than , And in my mynde remember this and that , Ye may not blame me ...
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