British Synonymy, 1794, Part 2Scolar P., 1968 - 423 pages |
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Page 53
... mean to make a pleasing NARRATION , those circumftances fhould not be dwelt on too minutely , but rather one felected from the reft , to set in a full light . Whoever means to please in conversation , seeing no perfon more attended to ...
... mean to make a pleasing NARRATION , those circumftances fhould not be dwelt on too minutely , but rather one felected from the reft , to set in a full light . Whoever means to please in conversation , seeing no perfon more attended to ...
Page 84
... mean to convince - or where , convinced already , they mean to main- tain the fide they have chosen to support , in defiance of the champions oppofite , to whose triumph they wish not to bear witness . Here ORATORY has no place ...
... mean to convince - or where , convinced already , they mean to main- tain the fide they have chosen to support , in defiance of the champions oppofite , to whose triumph they wish not to bear witness . Here ORATORY has no place ...
Page 143
... mean even for fo mean a practice : to CAVIL is fcarce a fynonyme to the other three ; although he who PREVARICATES , by catching up words in a wrong fenfe , docs moft undoubtedly ex- pose the meaning to CAVIL , and that inten- tionally ...
... mean even for fo mean a practice : to CAVIL is fcarce a fynonyme to the other three ; although he who PREVARICATES , by catching up words in a wrong fenfe , docs moft undoubtedly ex- pose the meaning to CAVIL , and that inten- tionally ...
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