A Selection of English SynonymsJ. Munroe, 1852 - 179 pages |
Expressions et termes fréquents
2ndly abstract action adjective adverb affliction anger applied approbation Aristotle bad education beauty benevolence called cause character child conduct conjugate word considered contempt convey correctly speaking criminal curious deceit degree denote derived describe despotism diffidence disposition dread Edition effect elegant employed emulation English language envy etymology evil expression faith fault fear feeling formerly fortitude French graceful Greek grief habit hand Hence idea imagination implies indicates individual indolent inferior instance intention intransitive verb kind language Latin laws less Lincoln's Inn manners mental merely metonymy mind moral nature nearly never noun object Octavo old English opinions original meaning ourselves pain paronymous passion patience perly person pleasure polite praise qualities racter reason reference reform relation reproach respect Saxon sense sentiments shade of difference signify Sir Robert Walpole sometimes sorrow speech spite strong stronger substantive suffer supposed synonymous term things timidity tion verb virtue Whately's
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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 13 - 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 130 - Wordsworth's Ode to Duty : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy will and know it not.
Page 67 - 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 67 - 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 8 - 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,' &c. VOLUNTARILY, WILLINGLY. ' Voluntarily ' is more restricted in its sense than ' willingly ; ' it simply means that the thing...
Page ix - SYNONTMS. 277 etymologies, which are* generally appended to every group of synonyms as an almost essential part of it. But it may be doubted whether this procedure does not tend to confuse the subject it was intended to clear. The history of the derivation of words is, indeed, one which offers a most interesting and important field of inquiry, and one which may accidentally throw light on their meanings ; but the two questions are, in themselves, completely distinct ; and, in inquiring into the actual...
Page v - ... sufficient resemblance of meaning to make them liable to be confounded together. And it is in the number and variety of these that (as the Abbe* Girard well remarks) the richness of a language consists.
Page 88 - Saxon the more hearty and cordial. . . .We speak of 'a paternal government' — 'maternal duties' ; but of 'a fatherly kindness of manner' -'a motherly tenderness.' RIGHTEOUS, JUST. . .a Saxon and a Latin term, whose roots exactly correspond in meaning; but they have even more curiously diverged than many other pairs of words. 'Righteous...
Page x - The propriety of meaning is known a priori by th« scholar who is acquainted with the etymology of the word, but the person who has collected its meaning only from its use is ever liable to mistakes, and often to the most ridiculous mistakes; because, perhaps, in the course of his experience it has never been used in such a manner as to demonstrate its peculiar signification...