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... employed * Lord Orrery , in a letter to Dr. Birch , mentions this as one of the very few inaccuracies in this admirable address , the laurel not being barren in any sense , but bearing fruits and flowers . Boswell's Life , vol . i . p ...
... employed * Lord Orrery , in a letter to Dr. Birch , mentions this as one of the very few inaccuracies in this admirable address , the laurel not being barren in any sense , but bearing fruits and flowers . Boswell's Life , vol . i . p ...
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... employed chiefly in poetry , words obsolete , words which are ad- mitted only by particular writers , yet not in them- selves improper ; words used only in burlesque writing ; and words impure and barbarous . Words of general use will ...
... employed chiefly in poetry , words obsolete , words which are ad- mitted only by particular writers , yet not in them- selves improper ; words used only in burlesque writing ; and words impure and barbarous . Words of general use will ...
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... , and even this negative recompence has been yet granted to very few . I have , notwithstanding this discouragement , attempted a Dictionary of the English language , which , while it was employed in the cultivation of.
... , and even this negative recompence has been yet granted to very few . I have , notwithstanding this discouragement , attempted a Dictionary of the English language , which , while it was employed in the cultivation of.
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which , while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature , has itself been hi- therto neglected ; suffered to spread , under the direction of chance , into wild exuberance ; re- signed to the tyranny of time and ...
which , while it was employed in the cultivation of every species of literature , has itself been hi- therto neglected ; suffered to spread , under the direction of chance , into wild exuberance ; re- signed to the tyranny of time and ...
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... employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their fathers . It has been asserted , that for the law to be known , is of more importance than to be ...
... employed too anxiously on verbal singula- rities , not to disturb , upon narrow views , or for minute propriety , the orthography of their fathers . It has been asserted , that for the law to be known , is of more importance than to be ...
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