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absolute abstract action agnomen allegory anger Anglo-Saxon animal Antonyms applied authority bad sense battle beautiful body called calm cause character chiefly circumlocution command comminuted common commonly Compare synonyms deliberative assembly delight denotes derived desire differ distinctive effect endeavor enduring enemy especially esteem evil EXAMPLES expression faith fancy favorable fear feeling foreordination formal friendship give happy hinder honor human human voice ical idea imply injury innocent inquisitive intent involve justice kind knowledge language less limited marriage matter meaning ment mental mind moral motion nature niggardly obiter dictum object offense one's onyms ordinarily original pain pardon periphrasis person or thing pietism pity pleonasm practise predestination Prepositions purpose qualities QUESTIONS rarely reason refers regard result Saxon signify soul sound speak speech spirit statement stoicism substance suggestion term thou thought tical tion truth uncon unfavorable sense usage usually utterance word
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Page 488 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 65 - And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom ? And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Page 388 - 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 ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 143 - Every person has two educations, — one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
Page 464 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Page 460 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 430 - For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...
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Page 393 - twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page vi - Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed. The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale, when he stood crying, " Open Wheat," " Open Barley," to the door which obeyed no sound but