Purdon's Vocabulary of Words Constantly Needed: With Illustrations of Their Proper UseHarr Wagner Publishing Company, 1923 - 295 páginas |
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... humanity is the same the world over . A supplement aggregating more than fifty words was added . This aggregate mass represents the work of years . The world is the aggregate of nations . Here we have the aggregate of all the brilliant ...
... humanity is the same the world over . A supplement aggregating more than fifty words was added . This aggregate mass represents the work of years . The world is the aggregate of nations . Here we have the aggregate of all the brilliant ...
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... human experience and the mode of action of the Deity . anathema ( a - năth ' - e - mà ) , n . A curse ; an imprecation . She was the object of their anathema . Against everything which disagreed with his beliefs he hurled his anathemas ...
... human experience and the mode of action of the Deity . anathema ( a - năth ' - e - mà ) , n . A curse ; an imprecation . She was the object of their anathema . Against everything which disagreed with his beliefs he hurled his anathemas ...
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... human experience . Such a statement is an a priori assumption . apropos ( ǎp - rō - pō ' ) , adj . also adv . French . Seasonably ; to the purpose ; opportunely ; suited to the occasion ; by the way ; incidentally . It was apropos of ...
... human experience . Such a statement is an a priori assumption . apropos ( ǎp - rō - pō ' ) , adj . also adv . French . Seasonably ; to the purpose ; opportunely ; suited to the occasion ; by the way ; incidentally . It was apropos of ...
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... human destinies ? arbitrary ( är ' - bi - trā - ri ) , adj . ( adv . -ly ) . Discretionary ; depend- ing on individual will or judgment ; independent of rule ; un- controlled by law ; done at pleasure . He acts in a purely arbitrary ...
... human destinies ? arbitrary ( är ' - bi - trā - ri ) , adj . ( adv . -ly ) . Discretionary ; depend- ing on individual will or judgment ; independent of rule ; un- controlled by law ; done at pleasure . He acts in a purely arbitrary ...
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... human constitution . This is the climacteric effect . She has entered her grand climacteric . They have reached that climacteric in life when follies do not interest them . There were discussing the climacteric period . climatic ( kli ...
... human constitution . This is the climacteric effect . She has entered her grand climacteric . They have reached that climacteric in life when follies do not interest them . There were discussing the climacteric period . climatic ( kli ...
Termos e frases comuns
action adroit amusing ancient animals antinomian Appian artists atavism attitude attributed beatific beauty became become brummagem called capable caused character Characterized clever condition conduct connotes considered coruscation depilation deviation discourse doctrine duty effect euphuistic evanescent evidence evil ex cathedra existence expression facetious fallacious false feeling flowers force French give habit hence humor hypochondria idea incubus influence interest jujutsu knowledge lack language Latin LESSON ONE HUNDRED literary living manner meaning ment mental metonymy mind misanthropy moral motive nature Nirvana nutation object offense one's opinion passed peace period periphrasis person or thing Pertaining phrase pleasing pleasure pleonasm plural poem position relating remarks render replete result Rubáiyát rule seemed sense sentiment similar import sound speak speech spirit spoke statement story style sudorific sweet thought tion truth tumulus utter verse women Word of similar writing
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Página 295 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! " OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus.
Página 71 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Página 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 263 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Página 64 - ... has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come...
Página 256 - It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love. If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
Página 94 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 61 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Página 142 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Página 287 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.