British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Volume 2G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794 |
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... Meantime our great triumph over fo- reigners , who visit us from warmer climates , is in the fuperior felicity of our married cou- ples ; nor do I praise those fuperficial writers who fo lament the infidelities committed among us - in ...
... Meantime our great triumph over fo- reigners , who visit us from warmer climates , is in the fuperior felicity of our married cou- ples ; nor do I praise those fuperficial writers who fo lament the infidelities committed among us - in ...
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... fweet and delicate . We buy Blair's Works , but would rather study War- burton's ; we talk of tender Venetian airs , but our hearts acknowledge Handel . Mean- time time ' tis unjust to say that German MUSICK is BRITISH SYNONYMY . 25.
... fweet and delicate . We buy Blair's Works , but would rather study War- burton's ; we talk of tender Venetian airs , but our hearts acknowledge Handel . Mean- time time ' tis unjust to say that German MUSICK is BRITISH SYNONYMY . 25.
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... Meantime the piety of Lutherans foars a fublimer flight ; and when they fet before the eyes of their glow- ing imagination Meffiah ever bleffed , they kindle into rapture , and break out with pious transport , Hallelujah ! for the Lord ...
... Meantime the piety of Lutherans foars a fublimer flight ; and when they fet before the eyes of their glow- ing imagination Meffiah ever bleffed , they kindle into rapture , and break out with pious transport , Hallelujah ! for the Lord ...
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... Meantime nothing is so offenfive to Eng- lish men or women in general ( for exceptions only serve to prove the rule ) , as to be rated among the LOW PEOPLE or the VULGAR , conscious that every native of our happy country may die a ...
... Meantime nothing is so offenfive to Eng- lish men or women in general ( for exceptions only serve to prove the rule ) , as to be rated among the LOW PEOPLE or the VULGAR , conscious that every native of our happy country may die a ...
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... meantime , and there are corroborat- ing reafons to believe , that in old times as well as now fome waggifh way was always adopted by low people , when speaking of D 3 pecu pecuniary concerns : and NUMMI was cer- tainly a cant BRITISH ...
... meantime , and there are corroborat- ing reafons to believe , that in old times as well as now fome waggifh way was always adopted by low people , when speaking of D 3 pecu pecuniary concerns : and NUMMI was cer- tainly a cant BRITISH ...
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