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affection animal applied Belonging BİRD body BOOK BULL BYLL cause CH as SH church cloth colour Consisting denotes Destitute DIPHTHONG disease dress evil excite expression FALL FÄR favour fish flower force fruit genus heat hence horse instrument kind land LÅST letter light long.—Ă manner MARÏNE mark means ment metal mind motion MÖVE ness one's opposed pain person Pertaining piece plant produce pron quadruped Relating resembling round RÛLE sense ship short.—CÂRE side sion soft sound species spirit stone substance syllable taining Tending TÈRM THÊRE thing tion tree utter v. i. To grow v. t. Literally v. t. or v. i. v. t. pret v. t. To cover v. t. To form v. t. To give v. t. To put v. t. To take vessel VI"CIOUS WHẬT WOLF words writing
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Strana 199 - ... almost every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal appetites ; felicity is a more formal word, and is used more sparingly in the same general sense, but with elevated associations ; blessedness is applied to the most refined enjoyment arising from the purest social, benevolent, and religious affections ; bliss denotes still more exalted delight, and is applied more appropriately to the joy anticipated in heaven. So few words in our language are strictly synonymous, that we have long been...
Strana 56 - Broad'side, a discharge of all the guns on one side of a ship, above and below, at the same time.
Strana 144 - An ambassador is a minister of the highest rank, employed by one prince or state at the court of another, to manage the concerns of his own prince or state, and representing the dignity and power of his sovereign.
Strana 260 - It/elen who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits ; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power ; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.
Strana ix - Jones, however, declared it to be "a mincing affectation ; and Mi t ford said, "No English tongue fails to express, no English ear to perceive, the difference between the sound of a in passing and in passive. No colloquial familiarity will substitute the one for the other.
Strana ix - At the same time it must be confessed that when /, i, or n, follow the letter, we are apt,, even in London, to give a slight prolongation to the vowel, which would, in other cases, be quite rustic...
Strana v - Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
Strana 140 - Parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue and parsimony a vice." We must have clear ideas as to which course of the three we shall follow, for it is scarcely to be taken for granted that we shall follow the course of extravagance. There is, however, danger of indifference as to the size of public expenditures, and extravagance may result therefrom.
Strana 197 - Custom. — Habit is an internal principle which leads us to do easily, naturally, and with growing certainty, what we do often ; custom is external, being the frequent repetition of the same act The two operate reciprocally on each oilier.
Strana 180 - Friction (frik'shun), in physics, the effect of rubbing, or the resistance which a moving body meets with from the surface on which it moves.