Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... able to determine . Its first effect has been to make me anxious , lest it should fix the attention of the publick too much upon me , and , as it once hap- pened to an epick poet of France , by raising the reputation of the attempt ...
... able to determine . Its first effect has been to make me anxious , lest it should fix the attention of the publick too much upon me , and , as it once hap- pened to an epick poet of France , by raising the reputation of the attempt ...
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... able , active , activity . This will much facilitate the attainment of our language , which now stands in our dictionaries a confused heap of words without dependence , and without relation . When this part of the work is performed , it ...
... able , active , activity . This will much facilitate the attainment of our language , which now stands in our dictionaries a confused heap of words without dependence , and without relation . When this part of the work is performed , it ...
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... able reason of choice , as in choak , choke ; soap , sope ; fewel , fuel , and many others ; which I have some- times inserted twice , that those who search for them under either form , may not search in vain . In examining the ...
... able reason of choice , as in choak , choke ; soap , sope ; fewel , fuel , and many others ; which I have some- times inserted twice , that those who search for them under either form , may not search in vain . In examining the ...
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... able to trace the steps by which they arrived at the present use . These I have noted with great care ; and though I cannot flatter myself that the collection is complete , I believe I have so far assisted the students of our language ...
... able to trace the steps by which they arrived at the present use . These I have noted with great care ; and though I cannot flatter myself that the collection is complete , I believe I have so far assisted the students of our language ...
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... able to satisfy myself . To interpret a language by itself is very difficult ; many words cannot be explained by synonymes , because the idea signified by them has not more than one appella- tion ; nor by paraphrase , because simple ...
... able to satisfy myself . To interpret a language by itself is very difficult ; many words cannot be explained by synonymes , because the idea signified by them has not more than one appella- tion ; nor by paraphrase , because simple ...
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