English Synonyms and Antonyms: With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions; Designed as a Companion for the Study and as a Text-book for the Use of Schools |
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action allegory Anglo-Saxon animal ANTONYMS applied attached authority bad sense bathos beautiful body called casuistry cause character chiefly comminuted common commonly Compare synonyms connection danger deliberative assembly denotes derived differ distinction effect enduring enemy especially etymologically evil EXAMPLES expression fact faith fancy fasten favorable fear feeling force foreordination formal friendship FUNK give happiness hence honor human human voice idea implies injury intent involve Julius Cæsar kind knowledge language less light limited marriage matter meaning ment mental mind moral motion nature ness niggardly obiter dictum object offense one's ordinarily original pain pardon person or thing phrase pietism pity Pleonasm possession practise PREPOSITIONS primarily purpose qualities QUESTIONS rarely reason reference regard result Saxon secure signifies sophism sound speak special sense speech spirit statement stoicism substance suggestion term thou thought tion truth unfavorable sense usage usually utterance word
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Page 572 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land*, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 471 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Page 556 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 479 - 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 531 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 473 - 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 541 - He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page 563 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 99 - 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 584 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.