A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Incorporating the Labours of Sheridan and Walker ... Also a Key to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scripture Proper Names

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H.G. Bohn, 1851 - 790 Seiten

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Seite 254 - A little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater ; or a small orb, which, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with...
Seite 16 - I'll call myself ! — She will not dare ! — 0 when Did my Virginia dare — Virginia ! Is it a voice, or nothing answers me ? I hear a sound so fine — there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
Seite 108 - A figure in poetry, by which a short syllable after a complete foot is made long ; a pause in verse.
Seite 173 - A crank is the end of an iron axis turned square down, and again turned square to the first turning down ; any bending or winding passage , any conceit formed by twisting or changiug a word.
Seite 60 - The inner contour of an arch ; or, a band adorned with mouldings, running over the faces of the arch stones, and bearing upon the imposts. It has only a...
Seite 207 - Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Seite 241 - ELLIPSIS, s. A figure of rhetoric, by which something is left out ; in geometry, an oval figure, generated from the section of a cone, pi.
Seite 280 - In architecture, an ornament of carved work in the form of a wreath or garland of flowers, or leaves twisted together.
Seite 196 - A thing given or forfeited to God for the pacifying his wrath, in case of any misfortune, by which any Christian comes to a violent end, without the fault of any reasonable creature...

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