A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their PresentMacmillan, 1873 - 275 páginas |
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... should bear too upon their front that amount of triumphant proof , which will carry conviction not merely to the student who by a careful observation of many like passages , xii Preface to the First Edition . Dictionaries or Glossaries.
... should bear too upon their front that amount of triumphant proof , which will carry conviction not merely to the student who by a careful observation of many like passages , xii Preface to the First Edition . Dictionaries or Glossaries.
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... observe that the notion of diversion , entertainment , is com- paratively of recent introduction into the word . To amuse ' was to cause to muse , to occupy or engage , and in this sense indeed to divert , the thoughts and attention ...
... observe that the notion of diversion , entertainment , is com- paratively of recent introduction into the word . To amuse ' was to cause to muse , to occupy or engage , and in this sense indeed to divert , the thoughts and attention ...
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... observe , that while it is now only applied to the heavy ord- nance of modern warfare , in earlier use any engines for the projecting of missiles , even to the bow and arrows , would have been included under this term . The Parthians ...
... observe , that while it is now only applied to the heavy ord- nance of modern warfare , in earlier use any engines for the projecting of missiles , even to the bow and arrows , would have been included under this term . The Parthians ...
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... of accurate observation . Thus ' base ' always now implies moral unworthi- ness ; but did not so once . ' Base men were no more than men of humble birth and low degree . 22 Battle - Bawd . But virtuous women wisely understand.
... of accurate observation . Thus ' base ' always now implies moral unworthi- ness ; but did not so once . ' Base men were no more than men of humble birth and low degree . 22 Battle - Bawd . But virtuous women wisely understand.
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... observe and keep them . - STRYPE , Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer , vol . i . p . 412 . And , as a German writer well observes , the French kings might well brook that title of Christianissimi from that admir- able exploit of Carolus ...
... observe and keep them . - STRYPE , Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer , vol . i . p . 412 . And , as a German writer well observes , the French kings might well brook that title of Christianissimi from that admir- able exploit of Carolus ...
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