THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.1823 |
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... gives or which feels terror ; a fearful prodigy , a fear- ful hare . Some have a personal , some a real mean- ing ; as in opposition to old , we use the adjective young , of animated beings , and new of other things . Some are ...
... gives or which feels terror ; a fearful prodigy , a fear- ful hare . Some have a personal , some a real mean- ing ; as in opposition to old , we use the adjective young , of animated beings , and new of other things . Some are ...
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... give an account of the 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 ...
... give an account of the 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 ...
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... give pleasure or instruction , by convey- ing some elegance of language , or some precept of prudence , or piety . It has been asked , on some occasions , who shall judge the judges ? And since , with regard to this design , a question ...
... give pleasure or instruction , by convey- ing some elegance of language , or some precept of prudence , or piety . It has been asked , on some occasions , who shall judge the judges ? And since , with regard to this design , a question ...
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... give , perhaps not often rashly , the preference . I have left , in the examples , to every author his own practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be ...
... give , perhaps not often rashly , the preference . I have left , in the examples , to every author his own practice unmolested , that the reader may balance suffrages , and judge between us : but this question is not always to be ...
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... give over , to cease ; to set off , to embellish ; to set in , to begin a continual tenour ; to set out , to begin a course or journey ; to take off , to copy ; with innumerable expressions of the same kind , of which some appear wildly ...
... give over , to cease ; to set off , to embellish ; to set in , to begin a continual tenour ; to set out , to begin a course or journey ; to take off , to copy ; with innumerable expressions of the same kind , of which some appear wildly ...
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