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... meaning to denounce him as irresolute , weak , and sly . The Slav every now and then complains that he has been forced by the Muscovites to relinquish the Uniate - Romanist creed , which he accepted under Polish rule , and re- embrace ...
... meaning to denounce him as irresolute , weak , and sly . The Slav every now and then complains that he has been forced by the Muscovites to relinquish the Uniate - Romanist creed , which he accepted under Polish rule , and re- embrace ...
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... meanings different from his own , a man's mind in such a case is gradually tinctured with novel hues , until , having no occasion to air his old phraseology , he ends by adopting the new one in the sense and in the meaning in which it ...
... meanings different from his own , a man's mind in such a case is gradually tinctured with novel hues , until , having no occasion to air his old phraseology , he ends by adopting the new one in the sense and in the meaning in which it ...
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... meaning in accord with the peculiarities of the subsiding type . A good , and by its multiplicity perfectly conclusive , example of this linguistic diversification is supplied by the history of colonial Latin . Readily accom- modating ...
... meaning in accord with the peculiarities of the subsiding type . A good , and by its multiplicity perfectly conclusive , example of this linguistic diversification is supplied by the history of colonial Latin . Readily accom- modating ...
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... meaning ' red , * coloured , ' † in Little Russian mostly keeps to the sensuous sphere , and getting no farther than a very slight metaphor will carry it , signifies , ' pleasing , beautiful ; ' in Great Russian , on the other hand ...
... meaning ' red , * coloured , ' † in Little Russian mostly keeps to the sensuous sphere , and getting no farther than a very slight metaphor will carry it , signifies , ' pleasing , beautiful ; ' in Great Russian , on the other hand ...
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... meaning of serviceable , and remains for ever removed from the idea of intrinsic worth . The Little Russian dutifully ac- knowledges the goodness of whatever proves bene- ficial ; the Great Russian , on the contrary , claims the right ...
... meaning of serviceable , and remains for ever removed from the idea of intrinsic worth . The Little Russian dutifully ac- knowledges the goodness of whatever proves bene- ficial ; the Great Russian , on the contrary , claims the right ...
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