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... likewife obferved how very imperfectly the Particles have been treated of by the Gram- marians ; and takes Notice , that to render them , as is usual in Dictionaries , by Words of another Tongue , which come nearest to their ...
... likewife obferved how very imperfectly the Particles have been treated of by the Gram- marians ; and takes Notice , that to render them , as is usual in Dictionaries , by Words of another Tongue , which come nearest to their ...
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... likewife y and w in fome Applications of them . The rest of the Letters are Confonants . The Articulation denoted by a VowEL is fuch , that it leaves a free Paffage to the Breath through the Lips : Therefore every Vowel may constitute a ...
... likewife y and w in fome Applications of them . The rest of the Letters are Confonants . The Articulation denoted by a VowEL is fuch , that it leaves a free Paffage to the Breath through the Lips : Therefore every Vowel may constitute a ...
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... Likewife the Names of Virtues , Vices , and other Dif- pofitions of the Mind : Such as goodness , juftice , wicked- nefs , injuftice , idleness , indolence , & c . Of Herbs ; as , fage , rue , parfly , & c . except collyflowers ...
... Likewife the Names of Virtues , Vices , and other Dif- pofitions of the Mind : Such as goodness , juftice , wicked- nefs , injuftice , idleness , indolence , & c . Of Herbs ; as , fage , rue , parfly , & c . except collyflowers ...
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... likewife duft , foot , wool , ruft . The Subftantives which have only the Plural Num- ber , are chiefly the Names of Inftruments , confifting of two principal Parts correfponding with each other ; as fbears , fciffars , fnuffers , tongs ...
... likewife duft , foot , wool , ruft . The Subftantives which have only the Plural Num- ber , are chiefly the Names of Inftruments , confifting of two principal Parts correfponding with each other ; as fbears , fciffars , fnuffers , tongs ...
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... likewife used before Partici- ples , when applied in Construction like Substantives ; as , in the bearing of injuries : And before Adjectives and Adverbs of the Comparative and Superlative Degree , when these Degrees are of principal ...
... likewife used before Partici- ples , when applied in Construction like Substantives ; as , in the bearing of injuries : And before Adjectives and Adverbs of the Comparative and Superlative Degree , when these Degrees are of principal ...
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Page 163 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 103 - I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Page 178 - There runs a story in the family, that when my mother was gone with child of me about three months, she dreamt that she was brought to bed of a judge: whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in.
Page 131 - What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what you hear you have; and what's unknown The same, my lord, if Tully's or your own.
Page 143 - I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. Whilst I was in this learned body, I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies, that there are very few celebrated books, either in the learned or the modern tongues, which I am not acquainted with.
Page 107 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 154 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Page 106 - Barnet is represented in another corner of the temple, as ringing the bells of Delphos, for joy of his arrival. The tent of Darius is to be peopled by the ingenious Mrs. Salmon, where Alexander is to fall in love with a piece of wax-work, that represents the beautiful Statira.
Page 154 - And God faw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darknefs.
Page 126 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.