THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... mean- ing of words , than for their structures or forma- tions ; and the words that most want explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous ...
... mean- ing of words , than for their structures or forma- tions ; and the words that most want explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous ...
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... means , and be left alone by fol- lowing the crowd . When a question of orthography is dubious , that practice has , in my opinion , a claim to preference which preserves the greatest number of radical letters , or seems most to comply ...
... means , and be left alone by fol- lowing the crowd . When a question of orthography is dubious , that practice has , in my opinion , a claim to preference which preserves the greatest number of radical letters , or seems most to comply ...
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... means con- stant , but admit of numberless irregularities , which in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives : are sometimes ...
... means con- stant , but admit of numberless irregularities , which in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives : are sometimes ...
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... mean- ing ; as in opposition to old , we use the adjective young , of animated beings , and new of other things . Some are restrained to the sense of praise , and others to that of disapprobation ; so commonly though not always , we ...
... mean- ing ; as in opposition to old , we use the adjective young , of animated beings , and new of other things . Some are restrained to the sense of praise , and others to that of disapprobation ; so commonly though not always , we ...
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... means by which they were introduced . Thus , to eke out any thing , signifies to lengthen it beyond its just dimensions , by some low artifice ; because the word eke was the usual refuge of our old writers , when they wanted a syllable ...
... means by which they were introduced . Thus , to eke out any thing , signifies to lengthen it beyond its just dimensions , by some low artifice ; because the word eke was the usual refuge of our old writers , when they wanted a syllable ...
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