A Sequel to the Diversions of Purley: Containing an Essay on English Verbs, with Remarks on Mr Tooke's Work, and Some Terms Employed to Denote Soul Or SpiritSmith, Elder, 1826 - 170 Seiten |
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... straight course . This last sense is also derived from to wend . WEND - AN , ire , venire , procedere , —vertere , convertere , converti , & c.— Lye . 66 " TO WEND , 1. To go , to pass to or from . 2. To “ turn round . ” — Johnson . To ...
... straight course . This last sense is also derived from to wend . WEND - AN , ire , venire , procedere , —vertere , convertere , converti , & c.— Lye . 66 " TO WEND , 1. To go , to pass to or from . 2. To “ turn round . ” — Johnson . To ...
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... straight line , and moral rectitude of conduct , has obtained in every language I know ; " and might , I think , be satisfactorily explained , without founding the theory of morality upon a philological nostrum concerning past ...
... straight line , and moral rectitude of conduct , has obtained in every language I know ; " and might , I think , be satisfactorily explained , without founding the theory of morality upon a philological nostrum concerning past ...
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... straight is often to be right in the secondary sense of the word . * A straight line has been said to be the line of business , and before the refinement of taste it was considered the line of beauty . 66 66 We are told by Mr. Harris ...
... straight is often to be right in the secondary sense of the word . * A straight line has been said to be the line of business , and before the refinement of taste it was considered the line of beauty . 66 66 We are told by Mr. Harris ...
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... straight , appears not only from the circumstance mentioned by Mr. Stewart , that in many other , if not in all languages , the same word is employed to denote a straight line and moral rectitude , but from this , that the contrary term ...
... straight , appears not only from the circumstance mentioned by Mr. Stewart , that in many other , if not in all languages , the same word is employed to denote a straight line and moral rectitude , but from this , that the contrary term ...
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... straight and what is crooked , in the mind as well as the body . — Reid . Much of the soul they talk , but all awry . You married ones , Milton . If each of you would take this course , how many Must murder wives much better than ...
... straight and what is crooked , in the mind as well as the body . — Reid . Much of the soul they talk , but all awry . You married ones , Milton . If each of you would take this course , how many Must murder wives much better than ...
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alii analogy Anglo Anglosaxon verb anima animi animus applied autem bodily act body breath called Chaucer Cicero ciple common conjecture connexion derived diminutive DINLE Diversions of Purley Douglas's Virgil Dryden effect Eneid English verbs etymo etymologists etymology expression fleog-an formed the frequentative French frequentative verbs GAST German ghost GLITTERING Gothic heaved hence Ibid instance Jamieson Johnson King Lear language Lapwing Latin Latin language Lindsay living principle metaphor metonymy Milton mind Moso-Gothic nature nouns objects old English opinion past parti past participle past tense perhaps philosophers Pope prefix preterite and past quæ Quintilian quod quotes resemblance Romeo and Juliet saxon Scotch Scotland seems sense signify similar simply and merely soul or spirit speak spiritus subtile supposed term thing thinking principle thou tongue Tooke Tooke's transferred trope truth verbs ending WANDER WAVER WELTER Wending whence wind word wraith
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Seite 25 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistening with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Seite 25 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb,...
Seite 104 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Seite 54 - That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance: If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pampered Luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Seite 125 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Seite 27 - Seem'd heaven itself, till one suggestion rose; That vice should triumph, virtue vice obey, This sprung some doubt of Providence's sway: His hopes no more a certain prospect boast, And all the tenour of his soul is lost.
Seite 152 - Afterwards, when the more enlarged experience of these savages had led them to observe, and their necessary occasions obliged them to make mention of, other caves, and other trees, and other fountains, they would naturally bestow upon each of those new objects the same name by which they had been accustomed to express the similar object they were first acquainted with.
Seite 17 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Seite 51 - Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest! The wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind their country — Israel but the grave ! ON JORDAN'S BANKS.
Seite 24 - Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire ; Where shading elms along the margin grew. And...