A French and English DictionaryA. & W. Galignani & Company, 1833 - 604 pages |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
A French and English dictionary: containing full explanations ..., Volume 2 Joseph Wilson Affichage du livre entier - 1833 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ABASEMENT account action agree anat ance any thing appearance archit arms back bear bear up beast beat belonging better bird black bleach blood blow body book bread break bring business call carry cast catch cheune chose church clear cloth cold colour common dead degree discharge dispute draw drink drive earth edge entice étre figuré first full give good great grow hand head heraldry hinder horse house Jupiter keep kind king L'action language law term letter life little love made manner mean ment mettre mind money mythol name nece ness one's oneself order people plant play power quality round same ship small sort state stone synon take thing time tion tree upon used v. a. to make vaisseau vessel water wind woman word work
Fréquemment cités
Page 41 - To avow, to acknowledge, to confess. Each of these words imports the affirmation of a fact, but in very different circumstances. To avow, supposes the person to glory in it ; to acknowledge, supposes a small degree of faultiness, which the acknowledgment compensates ; to confess, supposes a higher degree of crime. A patriot avows his opposition to a bad minister, and is applauded ; a gentleman acknowledges his mistake, and is forgiven ; a prisoner confesses the crime he is accused of, and is punished.
Page 29 - ... and as the general practice has established. For all their innocent folly, playing, and childish actions, are to be left perfectly free and unrestrained, as far as they can consist with the respect due to those that...
Page 193 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 108 - The term colony, signifies nothing more than a body of people drawn from the mother country, to inhabit some distant place, or the country itself so inhabited.
Page 27 - That part of the orbit of a planet in which it is at the point remotest from the sun.
Page 86 - A blank paper, a paper to be filled up with such conditions as the person to whom it is sent thinks proper.
Page 154 - Philip found an obstacle to the managing of the Athenians, from the nature of their dispositions ; but the eloquence of Demosthenes was the greatest difficulty in his designs.
Page 42 - The pin which passes through the midst of the wheel, on which the circumvolutions of the wheel are performed.
Page 191 - In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive, in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive, in regard to things that depend on the civil law.