A Selection of English SynonymsJ. Munroe, 1852 - 179 pages |
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A Selection of English Synonyms [By E.J. Whately, Revised by R. Whately] Elizabeth Jane Whately Aucun aperçu disponible - 2023 |
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2dly abstract action adjective ADVERBS affliction anger applied approbation Aristotle bad education beauty beneficent benevolence called cause character child conduct confess conjugate word considered contempt convey the idea correctly speaking correspond criminal curious deceit degree denote derived describe despotism diffidence disposition dread effect elegant ellipse employed envy erally etymology evil expression faith fault faultless fear feeling formerly fortitude French Greek grief habit hand Hence imagination impediment implies indicates indolent instance intransitive verb kind language Latin less manners meaning mental merely metonymy mind moral nature nearly necessarily never noun object old English opinion originally ourselves pain paronymous passion patience person pleasure possess qualities reason reference Reformation relation reproach Saxon Self-love sense sentiments shade of difference shyness signification signify sion Sir Robert Walpole sometimes sorrow speech spite strong stronger substantive suffer supposed synonymous term things Timid tion verb vidual virtue Whately's
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Page 57 - The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.
Page 31 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Page 75 - An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact as they really happened ; a book may be genuine without being authentic, and a book may be authentic without being genuine. The books [written by] Richardson and Fielding are genuine books, though the histories of Clarissa and Tom Jones are fables. The History of the Island of Formosa is a genuine book : it was written by Psalmanazar ; but it is not an authentic book, (though it was long esteemed as such, and translated into different languages...
Page 75 - A genuine book, is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it An authentic book, is that which relates to matters of fact, as they really happened.
Page 77 - If I am exposed to continual interruptions, I cannot pursue a continuous train of thought.' ' Perpetual' is sometimes used in the sense of continual,' but has rather a stronger signification, implying something which is still more constantly recurring.
Page 8 - Whoever justly infers, proves ; and whoever proves, infers: but the word 'inference' leads the mind from the premises which have been assumed, to the conclusion which follows from them : while the word 'proof follows a reverse process, and leads the mind from the conclusion to the premises. We say, ' What do you infer from this ?' and ' how do you prove that?'* Another illustration may be quoted in the synonyms ' expense' and ' cost' — * See Whately's Logic, book IV.
Page 3 - ... the metaphysical theory of ideas, and who consider the use of language to be merely the conveying ''our meaning to others, than by those who adhere to the opposite — the nominalist — view, (which I have set forth in the Introduction to the Logic, § 8,) and who accordingly regard words — or some kind of signs equivalent to words — as an indispensable instrument of thought, in all cases, where a process of reasoning takes place.
Page 127 - We can venture to apply the term to the Supreme Being ; whereas ' virtue ' is purely a human quality. As long as we live on * A very pleasing description of untutored natural goodness of disposition may be found in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty : ' Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy will and know it not.
Page 72 - soft music' is applied generally to music which pleases without exciting or enrapturing. Milton has preserved this meaning in his Allegro — ' Lap me in soft Lydian airs.' In this line he describes music as an agreeable accompaniment to other pleasures ; he uses very different language when he describes in the Penseroso the higher effects of music. ' Mild ' and ' gentle ' are more negative in their meaning. In their primary sense, they merely imply an influence which does not act with an unpleasant...
Page 6 - ... add to the copiousness of the English language, by affording words of more and less familiarity, and of greater and less force. This may be easily understood, if we consider that the branch of the Teutonic, spoken in England during the Anglo-Saxon period, never became extinct, but that three fourths of the English language at present consist of words altered .or derived from that ancient dialect; that these words usually express the most familiar ideas, such as man, house, land, &c. ; and that...