English Synonymes ExplainedJ. & J. Harper, 1826 - 713 strán (strany) |
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Strana 13
... pass the day , that is , a certain portion of one's time , in a place . DWELL , from the Danish dwelger to abide ... passing one's life . RESIDE , from the Latin re and sideo to sit down , conveys the full idea of a settle- ment ...
... pass the day , that is , a certain portion of one's time , in a place . DWELL , from the Danish dwelger to abide ... passing one's life . RESIDE , from the Latin re and sideo to sit down , conveys the full idea of a settle- ment ...
Strana 14
... pass in soli- tude . We abjure a religion , we recant a doctrine , we retract a promise , we revoke a command , we recall an expression . What has been solemnly professed is re- nounced by abjuration ; what has been public- ly ...
... pass in soli- tude . We abjure a religion , we recant a doctrine , we retract a promise , we revoke a command , we recall an expression . What has been solemnly professed is re- nounced by abjuration ; what has been public- ly ...
Strana 21
... pass before them : an unso- eial temper leads some men to separate them- selves from all their companions : an ab- surd ambition leads others to distinguish themselves by their eccentricities . We ought to abstract our minds from the ...
... pass before them : an unso- eial temper leads some men to separate them- selves from all their companions : an ab- surd ambition leads others to distinguish themselves by their eccentricities . We ought to abstract our minds from the ...
Strana 31
... pass . We act whenever we do any thing ; but we may act without doing any thing . The first of these words is intransitive , and the se- cond transitive : we do not act a thing , but we always do a thing . The first approaches nearest ...
... pass . We act whenever we do any thing ; but we may act without doing any thing . The first of these words is intransitive , and the se- cond transitive : we do not act a thing , but we always do a thing . The first approaches nearest ...
Strana 37
... pass through the streets of the metropolis without being continually ad- dressed by beggars , who apply for the relief of artificial more than of real wants . Men in power are always exposed to be publicly place with aphorisms and ...
... pass through the streets of the metropolis without being continually ad- dressed by beggars , who apply for the relief of artificial more than of real wants . Men in power are always exposed to be publicly place with aphorisms and ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
action Addison admit affections animals applied authority bad sense Blair body Burke cause cerned character Christian Cicero circumstances civil comes common compounded comprehends conduct confined Cumberland degree denotes disposition distinction divine Dryden employed endeavour epithets evil exer express favour feeling figurative former French frequently friends German give Greek happy heart Hebrew honour human humour idea implies individual indulgence ject Johnson labour Latin latter lence less low German manner marks means ment Milton mind mode moral nature neral ness never nifies object occasion offended one's opposed ourselves pain participle particular passions perly person pleasure Pope principles produce properly quires racter regard religion respects Saxon sentiment serve Shakspeare signi signifies literally signifies the thing sion sometimes speak species spects spirit Steele superior tain temper Thomson tion truth vice vidual virtue wish words
Populárne pasáže
Strana 155 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Strana 357 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Strana 314 - To rapture, and enthusiastic heat, We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of GOD to see a happy world...
Strana 357 - Bring water; bathe the wound; while I in death Lay close my lips to hers, and catch the flying breath.
Strana 307 - A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous; and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.
Strana 173 - So that pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind, by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the east, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion : the Jewish law...
Strana 190 - Everything is compatible with a plan which does not interrupt its prosecution ; everything is consistent with a person's station by which it is neither degraded nor elevated. It is not compatible with the good discipline of a school to allow of foreign interference ; it is not consistent with the elevated and dignified character of a clergyman to engage in the ordinary pursuits of other men.
Strana 354 - ... where And what I was whence thither brought and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Strana 359 - ... competitor, I was awakened by the noise of the cannon, which were then fired for the taking of Mons. I should have been very much troubled 'at being thrown out of so pleasing a vision on any other occasion ; but thought it an agreeable change to have my thoughts diverted from the greatest among the dead and fabulous heroes, to the most famous among the real and the living.
Strana 488 - Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes...