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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... whofe thoughts have been , perhaps , employed too anxioutly on verbal fingularities , not to difturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their fathers . It has been afferted , that for the law to be known ...
... whofe thoughts have been , perhaps , employed too anxioutly on verbal fingularities , not to difturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their fathers . It has been afferted , that for the law to be known ...
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... whofe idlenefs and ignorance , if it be fuffered to proceed , will reduce us to babble a diale & t of France . If the changes that we fear be thus irrefiftible , what remains but to acquiefce with filence , as in the other ...
... whofe idlenefs and ignorance , if it be fuffered to proceed , will reduce us to babble a diale & t of France . If the changes that we fear be thus irrefiftible , what remains but to acquiefce with filence , as in the other ...
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... whofe defign includes whatever language can express , must often speak of what he does not understand ; that a writer will fometimes be hurried by eagerness to the end , and fometimes faint with weari- nefs under a task , which Scaliger ...
... whofe defign includes whatever language can express , must often speak of what he does not understand ; that a writer will fometimes be hurried by eagerness to the end , and fometimes faint with weari- nefs under a task , which Scaliger ...
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... whofe country lackt de- fence , And whylom of their foes stode so in dout , That eche man hastely gan to carry thence , And asked hym why he nought caryed out . I bere quod be all myne with me about : Wifedom he ment , not fortunes ...
... whofe country lackt de- fence , And whylom of their foes stode so in dout , That eche man hastely gan to carry thence , And asked hym why he nought caryed out . I bere quod be all myne with me about : Wifedom he ment , not fortunes ...
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... whofe life withstoode his purpose . He dewe with his owne handes king Henry the fixt , being prifoner in the Tower , as meane conftantly faye , and that without commaundement or knoweledge of the king , whiche woulde vndoubt- efly of he ...
... whofe life withstoode his purpose . He dewe with his owne handes king Henry the fixt , being prifoner in the Tower , as meane conftantly faye , and that without commaundement or knoweledge of the king , whiche woulde vndoubt- efly of he ...
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