Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief intent of it is to preserve the purity , and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this seems to ...
... whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief intent of it is to preserve the purity , and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this seems to ...
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... take , turn , throw . If of these the whole power is not accurately delivered , it must be re- membered , that while our language is yet living , and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks 46 PREFACE TO THE.
... take , turn , throw . If of these the whole power is not accurately delivered , it must be re- membered , that while our language is yet living , and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks 46 PREFACE TO THE.
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... whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of the ...
... whole performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of the ...
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... whole ; nor can it be expected , that the stones which form the dome of a temple , should be squared and po- lished like the diamond of a ring . Of the event of this work , for which , having laboured it with so much application , I ...
... whole ; nor can it be expected , that the stones which form the dome of a temple , should be squared and po- lished like the diamond of a ring . Of the event of this work , for which , having laboured it with so much application , I ...
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... whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and ety- mology , and that even a whole life would not be sufficient ; that he whose design includes whatever VOL . II . F language can express , must often speak of what he ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 65.
... whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and ety- mology , and that even a whole life would not be sufficient ; that he whose design includes whatever VOL . II . F language can express , must often speak of what he ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 65.
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