The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 10Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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... nouns , from being joined to an adjective in this or that termination . Our bodies are our gardens , to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will supply it with one gender of herbs , or distract it with many , the power and ...
... nouns , from being joined to an adjective in this or that termination . Our bodies are our gardens , to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will supply it with one gender of herbs , or distract it with many , the power and ...
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... nouns . The relation of one thing considered as belonging in some manner to another , occasioned , in the Greek and Latin , a peculiar termination of nouns called the genitive case ; but in the modern tongues a particle is prefixed to ...
... nouns . The relation of one thing considered as belonging in some manner to another , occasioned , in the Greek and Latin , a peculiar termination of nouns called the genitive case ; but in the modern tongues a particle is prefixed to ...
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... noun , which governs cases like verbs , and in Latin ends in di , do , and dum . GERYON , or GERYONES , in fabulous history , a king of Gades , in Iberia , who had three bodies , and fed his cattle with human flesh . This monster was ...
... noun , which governs cases like verbs , and in Latin ends in di , do , and dum . GERYON , or GERYONES , in fabulous history , a king of Gades , in Iberia , who had three bodies , and fed his cattle with human flesh . This monster was ...
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... nouns , the verbs , pronouns , adverbs , and other particles of speech which compose it , then it is said to be analysed grammatically . Watts . As grammar teacheth us to speak properly , so it is the part of rhetorick to instruct how ...
... nouns , the verbs , pronouns , adverbs , and other particles of speech which compose it , then it is said to be analysed grammatically . Watts . As grammar teacheth us to speak properly , so it is the part of rhetorick to instruct how ...
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... noun , without even attempting to give us any further informa- tion . As to the instances which he gives of Gothic and Saxon words , whence corresponding Latin and Greek words must have been derived , it is difficult to conceive any ...
... noun , without even attempting to give us any further informa- tion . As to the instances which he gives of Gothic and Saxon words , whence corresponding Latin and Greek words must have been derived , it is difficult to conceive any ...
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Page 156 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 331 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Page 32 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 22 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 341 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Page 376 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Page 174 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Page 330 - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
Page 34 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 124 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.