English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private TuitionD. Appleton, 1856 - 344 Seiten |
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... frequently available in determining the difference of words which cannot be brought under another category . But although some of the principles above explained will test the difference of a large majority of synonymous terms , there ...
... frequently available in determining the difference of words which cannot be brought under another category . But although some of the principles above explained will test the difference of a large majority of synonymous terms , there ...
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... frequently entertained of the proper use of many words suggesting themselves in the course of writing . In all cases of this sort , there is a word , and but one word , which will exactly convey our meaning ; 1 but the difficulty is how ...
... frequently entertained of the proper use of many words suggesting themselves in the course of writing . In all cases of this sort , there is a word , and but one word , which will exactly convey our meaning ; 1 but the difficulty is how ...
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... frequently lost sight of the modern acceptation of words , and consequently he has sometimes attempted to force on words a meaning which they do not really possess . Hence many of his definitions and discriminations are purely ar ...
... frequently lost sight of the modern acceptation of words , and consequently he has sometimes attempted to force on words a meaning which they do not really possess . Hence many of his definitions and discriminations are purely ar ...
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... frequent opportunities of exhibition ; and hence the exclusive attention paid to lighter accomplishments , and the comparative neglect with which the more valuable branches of education are treated . The scanty information given to ...
... frequent opportunities of exhibition ; and hence the exclusive attention paid to lighter accomplishments , and the comparative neglect with which the more valuable branches of education are treated . The scanty information given to ...
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... frequently find it to depend upon this principle ; that is , the one word will be found to specify precisely what the other expresses more generally . Indeed this occurs so often , that it may be confidently assumed as one mode of ...
... frequently find it to depend upon this principle ; that is , the one word will be found to specify precisely what the other expresses more generally . Indeed this occurs so often , that it may be confidently assumed as one mode of ...
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Seite 114 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Seite 79 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Seite 78 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species') to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Seite iii - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Seite 134 - The old Man still stood talking by my side; But now his voice to me was like a stream Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide; And the whole body of the Man did seem Like one whom I had met with in a dream; Or like a man from some far region sent, To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.
Seite 208 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Seite 83 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the...
Seite 329 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Seite 291 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And.
Seite 181 - Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been: The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old ; This, which I know, I speak with mind serene.