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according action affairs affection animal appearance argument attention authority bear body bold break bring cause character circumstances close common conduct confined continue course covered danger desire direct disposition duty engage event evil excited expression extreme fall favor fear feeling fixed follow force gain give ground happiness heart hold human ideas injury keep kind knowledge labor land learning light limit lively look manner mark means mind moral move nature object observe opinion pain particular passions perform person pleasure possess practice present principles produce punishment reason regard relation religion rest rule secret sense separate sound speak spirit strength temper thing thought truth turn violent virtue
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Page 236 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 65 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear...
Page 62 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 228 - O impotence of mind in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
Page 221 - He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more.
Page 49 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 238 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death
Page 9 - At last the roused-up river pours along. Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes From the rude mountain and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads, Calm, sluggish, silent...
Page 169 - Latin word sacramentum, which signifies an oath, particularly the oath taken by soldiers to be true to their country and general. — The word was adopted b'y the writers of the Latin church, to denote those ordinances of religion by which Christians came under an obligation of obedience to God, and which obligation, they supposed, was equally sacred with that of an oath.
Page 228 - Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did...
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Dictionary of English Synonymes ... |
| Author | John Platts |
| Publisher | Souter & Law, 1845 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Oct 6, 2006 |
| Length | 300 pages |
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