Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the English Language, with Descriptions of Their Various Shades of Meaning, and Illustrations of Their Usages and SpecialitiesBell & Daldy, 1871 - 610 Seiten |
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... sometimes em- ployed as an independent noun instead of employing as a noun the participle humbling . In the phrase " a day of fasting and humiliation , " the term conveys the idea of external self- humbling . TO DISGRACE is to deprive ...
... sometimes em- ployed as an independent noun instead of employing as a noun the participle humbling . In the phrase " a day of fasting and humiliation , " the term conveys the idea of external self- humbling . TO DISGRACE is to deprive ...
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... sometimes opposed in Scrip- ture to pride , and sometimes to sensuality . " -Gilpin . TEMPERATE denotes the character which is well balanced in its appetites , and to which moderation , though it be the result of effort , is yet ...
... sometimes opposed in Scrip- ture to pride , and sometimes to sensuality . " -Gilpin . TEMPERATE denotes the character which is well balanced in its appetites , and to which moderation , though it be the result of effort , is yet ...
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... sometimes ( reason not refusing that liberty ) merely as matter of pleasure . It only con- fines us to such kinds , quantities , and seasons , as may best consist with our health , the use of our faculties , our fortune , and the like ...
... sometimes ( reason not refusing that liberty ) merely as matter of pleasure . It only con- fines us to such kinds , quantities , and seasons , as may best consist with our health , the use of our faculties , our fortune , and the like ...
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... sometimes gladly , sometimes ungra- ciously while accept is an active and conscious reception . So much of the purely passive is there in receive , that an inanimate object may be said to receive an impression . We receive what is given ...
... sometimes gladly , sometimes ungra- ciously while accept is an active and conscious reception . So much of the purely passive is there in receive , that an inanimate object may be said to receive an impression . We receive what is given ...
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... sometimes has the further sense of a natural willing- ness to recognise such power , as when one is amenable to discipline , advice , or reason . " The sovereign of this country is not ame- nable to any form of trial known to the laws ...
... sometimes has the further sense of a natural willing- ness to recognise such power , as when one is amenable to discipline , advice , or reason . " The sovereign of this country is not ame- nable to any form of trial known to the laws ...
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abstract action ance animal applied belongs Ben Jonson body called cause character Cicero circumstances colour common commonly conduct connected Cowper degree denotes desire disposition distinction Dryden effect employed evil expresses external fact favour feeling force former getic give habit hand hath Hence honour Hudibras human Icelandic idea Iliad implies influence instance involves judgment kind Latin less Low Latin manner matters meaning ment mental Milton mind monly moral nature ness never object observed Old Eng Old English Old Fr one's oneself opinion opposed Ovid pain passion persons physical pleasure ployed Plutarch possession principles produced purely purpose racter reason reference regarded relates result risan Saxon sense Shakespeare signifies sion sometimes speak specific speech Spenser spirit synonyms term things thou thought tical tion tive truth verb viduals violent virtue Waterland Wealth of Nations words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 552 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Seite 383 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Seite 208 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.
Seite 131 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Seite 358 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Seite 134 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Seite 314 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Seite 352 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 240 - Ye distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade -Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade...
Seite 45 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.