English synonyms discriminatedW. Pople, 1813 - 294 من الصفحات |
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accessory idea acquired Adelung adjective almanak anglo-saxon animals applied austere bankrupcy become bishop body called cause church Cicero constitutes continuance contract courage dæmon derived diocese discrimination disposition distinct Dryden dwell employed encaustic painting english word Ephemeris etymologically connected etymon expression fashion fear french frequently german give gothic dialects greek grow habitual hath hence hostile humor idea common implies impurely intellect italian Johnson language lares latin latin word less lordships magistrate magistratu means meliorate ment metaphor Milton mind moral motion natural nigh object observation odor opinion opposed originally participle persons phrases pleonasm poet Pope praise precision preposition probus prowess Quintilian reform religion saxon sense sensible idea sentiment Shakspeare signifies sion smell spelling substantive substantive derives supposed syllable synonyms synonymy term thing tion tongue tree Trusler usage vanity verb vulgar wave whence whereas word abdicated words describe writers zaum
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الصفحة 113 - The other way of retention is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight; and thus we do, when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet, the object being removed. This is memory, which is, as it were, the storehouse of our ideas.
الصفحة 242 - Imagination is the power of depicting, and fancy of evoking and combining. The imagination is formed by patient observation ; the fancy by a voluntary activity in shifting the scenery of the mind.
الصفحة 68 - Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve: When suddenly stood at my head a dream, Whose inward apparition gently mov'd My fancy to believe I yet had being, And liv'd: one came, methought, of shape divine, And said, ' Thy mansion wants thee, Adam; rise, First man, of men innumerable ordain'd First father!
الصفحة 223 - How few, like thee, inquire the wretched out, And court the offices of soft Humanity ? Like thee reserve their raiment for the naked, Reach out their bread to feed the crying orphan, Or mix their pitying tears with those that weep ? Thy praise deserves a better tongue than mine, To speak and bless thy name.
الصفحة 60 - ... coronation ; such a king to whom the allegiance of an English subject is due ; and hath set up another kind of dominion ; which is to all intents an abdication or abandoning of his legal title as fully as if it had been done by express words.
الصفحة 195 - THE parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination, and Philosophy to his Reason.
الصفحة 60 - II. by going about to subvert the constitution, and by breaking the original contract between king and people, and by violating the fundamental laws, and withdrawing himself out of the kingdom, hath thereby renounced to be n king according to the constitution...
الصفحة 173 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
الصفحة 183 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
الصفحة 29 - ... Solitary confinement is a severe form of life, and a severe punishment. Rigid observances, rigid opinions, are oftener spoken of than rigid sentences. A hermit is austere, who lives harshly; is severe who lives solitarily; is rigid who lives unswervingly. A casuist is austere who commands mortification, severe, who forbids conviviality, rigid, whose exactions are unqualified. A judge is austere, who punishes slight transgressions ; severe, who punishes to the utmost ; rigid, who punishes without...