English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best WritersBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and Simpkin and Marshall, 1826 - 688 páginas |
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... circumstances or facilitas facility , which signifies doableness , or the property of being able to do or bring about effects , is a power derived from nature ; The vital faculty is that by which life is preserved and the ordinary func ...
... circumstances or facilitas facility , which signifies doableness , or the property of being able to do or bring about effects , is a power derived from nature ; The vital faculty is that by which life is preserved and the ordinary func ...
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... circumstances , by which images are casually brought back to the mind , as happens to intelligent beings continually as they exercise their thinking faculties ; Remember thee ! Ah , thou poor ghost , while memory holds a seat In this ...
... circumstances , by which images are casually brought back to the mind , as happens to intelligent beings continually as they exercise their thinking faculties ; Remember thee ! Ah , thou poor ghost , while memory holds a seat In this ...
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... circumstances which have been just passing . We may contemplate and meditate for the future , but never muse . In this case the two former terms have the sense of contriving or purposing : what is contemplated to be done is thought of ...
... circumstances which have been just passing . We may contemplate and meditate for the future , but never muse . In this case the two former terms have the sense of contriving or purposing : what is contemplated to be done is thought of ...
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... circumstances as moral and responsible agents ; our petitions respect the temporary circumstances of our present existence . When the term prayer is applied to one's fellow creatures it carries with it the idea of earnestness and ...
... circumstances as moral and responsible agents ; our petitions respect the temporary circumstances of our present existence . When the term prayer is applied to one's fellow creatures it carries with it the idea of earnestness and ...
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... circumstances ; the latter is expressly in- consistent with Christian humility . He is high whom virtue ennobles ; his height is independent of adven- titious circumstances , it becomes the poor as well as the rich ; he is properly high ...
... circumstances ; the latter is expressly in- consistent with Christian humility . He is high whom virtue ennobles ; his height is independent of adven- titious circumstances , it becomes the poor as well as the rich ; he is properly high ...
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Términos y frases comunes
according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense BLAIR body BURKE cause cerned character Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct CUMBERLAND degree denotes desire disposition distinction divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets evil exertion expresses favor fear feeling former French frequently German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence HUDIBRAS human idea implies individual JENYNS JOHNSON judgement Latin latter less likewise low German manner marks marriage means ment MILTON mind mode nature ness never nexion nifies object offender one's opinion opposed ourselves pain participle particular passions perly Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul SOUTH speak species spects spirit STEELE superior supposed temper THOMSON tion Titus Manlius Torquatus uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word
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Página 283 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Página 174 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 320 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Página 92 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Página 15 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 208 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor^ and rich men rule the law...
Página 68 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Página 75 - Labour, and penury, the racks of pain, Disease, and sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
Página 23 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 348 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.