A Selection of English SynonymsParker, Son and Bourn, 1858 - 208 pages |
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A selection of English synonyms [by E.J. Whately, revised by R. Whately]. Elizabeth Jane Whately Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
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2ndly abstract action adjective affliction applied ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN Archbishop WHATELY Aristotle bad education beauty benevolence called cause character child conduct contempt conveys the idea correctly speaking criminal curious danger deceit degree denote derived describe despotism diffidence display disposition dread Edition effect elegant employed emulation English language envy etymology evil expression fact faith fault fear feeling formerly fortitude French Greek grief habit hand Hence humility humour implies individual indolent inferior instance kind language Latin less manner meant mental merely metonymy mind moral nature nearly never noun object Octavo old English opinions original meaning ourselves pain paronymous passion perly person Pilgrim's Progress polite praise Preface qualities racter reason reference Reformation relation root Saxon seems sense sentiments shade of difference signify sometimes sorrow speech stingy strong stronger substantive suffer supposed synonymous talents talk term things Timid tion verb Whately's writer
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Page 14 - 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 69 - 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 matters of fact, as they really happened.
Page 45 - 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 135 - Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy will and know it not.
Page 146 - GENIUS, WISDOM, ABILITIES, TALENTS, PARTS, INGENUITY, CAPACITY,' CLEVERNESS. ' Genius is the power of new combination, and may be shown in a campaign, a plan of policy, a steam-engine, a system of philosophy, or an epic poem. It seems to require seriousness, and some dignity in the purpose ; on ludicrous subjects it is called wit ; and in weaving together the parts of an argument, or the incidents of a tale, it receives the inferior name of ingenuity. ' Wisdom is the habitual employment of a patient...
Page viii - ... or else stand for two (more or less) distinct things. Indeed, it would often be regarded as almost a truism to assert this ; but those who maintain such an opinion overlook the fact, that two words, without exactly coinciding in sense, may nevertheless relate to one and the same thing, regarded in two different points of view. An illustration of this is afforded in the relation which exists between the words ' inference ' and ' proof.' Whoever justly infers, proves ; and whoever proves, infers...
Page 69 - 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,) for the author, in the latter part of his life, took shame to himself for having...
Page 71 - Continual' is that which is constantly renewed and recurring, though it maybe interrupted as frequently as it is renewed. A storm of wind or rain, which never intermits an instant, is ' continuous ;' a succession of showers is ' continual.' ' If I am exposed to continual interruptions, I cannot pursue a continuous train of thought.
Page 124 - Illusions,' on the other hand, are solely applied to the visions of a distempered imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity — or, lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word ' delusion ' is never applied. FALSEHOOD, FALSITY. ' Falsity ' is, properly speaking, the quality of a false proposition ; ' falsehood,' the proposition itself. When we have found out that a person has told a ' falsehood,' we are ' convinced of the ' falsity
Page 9 - He is a prince, and -likewise a musician,' because there is no natural connection between these qualities: but 'also' implies merely addition. 'Besides' is used rather when some additional circumstance is named after others ; as a kind of after-thought, and generally to usher in some new clause of a sentence ; as, ' Besides what has been said, this must be considered,