Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English LanguageHenry Percy Smith Holt, 1894 - 781 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abstract action active animal applicable belongs BEN JONSON Bible body called cation cause character Cicero circumstances colour common commonly conduct connexion degree denotes desire disposition distinction DRYDEN duty effect employed Etym evil exercise expresses external fact faculty favour feeling force former getic give habit hand hath Hence herent honour Hudibras human Icel idea Iliad implies influence instance involves judgment kind less manner matters means ment mental metaphorical MILTON mind monly moral nature ness nexion object observed one's opinion opposed Ovid pain particular passion persons physical ployed Plutarch position possession principle produce purely purpose racter reason reference regard relates rence result sense SHAKESPEARE sion sometimes speak specific speech SPENSER spirit substance superior synonym tain taste tence term thing thought tical tion tive truth verb virtue Wealth of Nations whole word
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Página 193 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked : and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Página 362 - Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this; That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence : the next more easy: For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency.
Página 71 - The liberty of the press is, indeed, essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but, if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity.
Página 170 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 212 - ... than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king; And prithee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Página 335 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 641 - Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou earnest forth from GOD.
Página 67 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Página 345 - abstraction," whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all of the same kind; and their names, general names, applicable to whatever exists conformable to such abstract ideas.
Página 369 - These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science, in the same manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objects, by the experiments which he forms concerning them.