A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their PresentMacmillan, 1873 - 275 páginas |
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... itself to me , in the amount of resistance which it would offer , as in verse furnishing more exactly what I seek than any other poem , perhaps some of Bacon's Essays in prose . Preface to the First Edition . vii In such a.
... itself to me , in the amount of resistance which it would offer , as in verse furnishing more exactly what I seek than any other poem , perhaps some of Bacon's Essays in prose . Preface to the First Edition . vii In such a.
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... Essay on Man , ep . 2 . ADAMANT . It is difficult to trace the exact motives which induced the transferring of this name to the lodestone ; but it is common enough in our best English writers , thus in Chaucer , Bacon , and Shakespeare ...
... Essay on Man , ep . 2 . ADAMANT . It is difficult to trace the exact motives which induced the transferring of this name to the lodestone ; but it is common enough in our best English writers , thus in Chaucer , Bacon , and Shakespeare ...
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... Essays , 18 . ADMIRAL . This was a title often given in the seventeenth century to the principal and leading vessel in a fleet ; the admiral - galley ' North ( Plu- tarch's Lives ) calls it . Falstaff ( to Bardolph ) . Thou art our ...
... Essays , 18 . ADMIRAL . This was a title often given in the seventeenth century to the principal and leading vessel in a fleet ; the admiral - galley ' North ( Plu- tarch's Lives ) calls it . Falstaff ( to Bardolph ) . Thou art our ...
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... essay succeeded so well , Moses would adventure on a second design , to atone two Israelites at variance . - FULLER , A Pisgah Sight of Palestine , vol . ii . p . 92 . Having more regard to their old variance than their new atone- ment ...
... essay succeeded so well , Moses would adventure on a second design , to atone two Israelites at variance . - FULLER , A Pisgah Sight of Palestine , vol . ii . p . 92 . Having more regard to their old variance than their new atone- ment ...
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... Essays , b . iii . c . 5 . CLIMATE . At present the temperature of a region , but once the region itself , the region , however , con- templated in its slope or inclination from the equator toward the pole , and therefore , by involved ...
... Essays , b . iii . c . 5 . CLIMATE . At present the temperature of a region , but once the region itself , the region , however , con- templated in its slope or inclination from the equator toward the pole , and therefore , by involved ...
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