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... actions would be celebrated by posterity , and that the eloquence which they promoted would be employed * Lord Orrery , in a letter to Dr. Birch , mentions this as one of the very few inaccuracies in this admirable address , the laurel ...
... actions would be celebrated by posterity , and that the eloquence which they promoted would be employed * Lord Orrery , in a letter to Dr. Birch , mentions this as one of the very few inaccuracies in this admirable address , the laurel ...
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... action , ac- tionable , active , activity . This will much facilitate the attainment of our language , which now stands in our dictionaries a confused heap of words with- out dependence , and without relation . When this part of the ...
... action , ac- tionable , active , activity . This will much facilitate the attainment of our language , which now stands in our dictionaries a confused heap of words with- out dependence , and without relation . When this part of the ...
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... actions , we instigate to ill ; we animate , incite , and encourage indifferently to good or bad . So we usually ascribe good but impute evil ; yet neither the use of these words , nor , perhaps , of any other in our licentious language ...
... actions , we instigate to ill ; we animate , incite , and encourage indifferently to good or bad . So we usually ascribe good but impute evil ; yet neither the use of these words , nor , perhaps , of any other in our licentious language ...
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... actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract signification ... action , they take the nature of adjectives ; as a thinking man , a man of prudence ; a pacing horse , a horse that ...
... actions , and have therefore a plural number , as dwelling , living ; or have an absolute and abstract signification ... action , they take the nature of adjectives ; as a thinking man , a man of prudence ; a pacing horse , a horse that ...
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... action of his tragedy depend upon enchant- ment , and produce the chief events by the assistance of supernatural agents , would be censured as trans- gressing the bounds of probability , he would be banished from the theatre to the ...
... action of his tragedy depend upon enchant- ment , and produce the chief events by the assistance of supernatural agents , would be censured as trans- gressing the bounds of probability , he would be banished from the theatre to the ...
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