A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is prefixed, an English grammar. To this ed. are added, a history of the English language [&c.].1768 |
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... called la Fiera , or the Fair , was profeffedly written by Buonaroti ; but I had no fuch affiftant , and therefore was content to want what they must have wanted likewife , had they not luckily been fo fupplied . Nor are all words which ...
... called la Fiera , or the Fair , was profeffedly written by Buonaroti ; but I had no fuch affiftant , and therefore was content to want what they must have wanted likewife , had they not luckily been fo fupplied . Nor are all words which ...
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... called obliuion , Hath a baftyll of foryetfulnes , Toftop the paffage , and fhadow my reason That I might have no clere direccion , In tranflating of new to quicke me , Stories to write of olde antiquite . Thus was I let and stode in ...
... called obliuion , Hath a baftyll of foryetfulnes , Toftop the paffage , and fhadow my reason That I might have no clere direccion , In tranflating of new to quicke me , Stories to write of olde antiquite . Thus was I let and stode in ...
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... called warlye , in other menne orherwife , he was ma- licious , wrathfull , enuious , and from afore his birth , ever froworde . It is for trouth reported , that the duches his mother had fo much a doe in her trauaile , that thee coulde ...
... called warlye , in other menne orherwife , he was ma- licious , wrathfull , enuious , and from afore his birth , ever froworde . It is for trouth reported , that the duches his mother had fo much a doe in her trauaile , that thee coulde ...
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... called , muche oughte we the more be- ware , by what occafion we haue taken foo greate hurte alore , that we eftefoones fall not in that occafon agayne . Nowe be thofe griefes paffed , and all is ( Godde be thanked ) quiete , and ...
... called , muche oughte we the more be- ware , by what occafion we haue taken foo greate hurte alore , that we eftefoones fall not in that occafon agayne . Nowe be thofe griefes paffed , and all is ( Godde be thanked ) quiete , and ...
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... called a double or ou , as water may be refolved in quater ; but letters of the fame found are always reckoned con- fonants in other alphabets : and it may be obferved , that we follows a vowel without any hiatus or difficulty of ...
... called a double or ou , as water may be refolved in quater ; but letters of the fame found are always reckoned con- fonants in other alphabets : and it may be obferved , that we follows a vowel without any hiatus or difficulty of ...
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