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Encyclopaedia Perthensis. What can thy imagery of forrow mean ? Secluded from the world , and all its care , Haft thou ... means of their images formed in the eye . ( 5. ) IMAGE , in rhetoric , alfo fignifies a lively de- fcription of any ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis. What can thy imagery of forrow mean ? Secluded from the world , and all its care , Haft thou ... means of their images formed in the eye . ( 5. ) IMAGE , in rhetoric , alfo fignifies a lively de- fcription of any ...
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... mean . - One means , very effectual for the prefervation of health , is a quiet and cheerful mind , not afflicted with violent paffions , or dif tracted with immoderate cares . Ray on the Creation . * IMMODERATELY . adv . [ from immode ...
... mean . - One means , very effectual for the prefervation of health , is a quiet and cheerful mind , not afflicted with violent paffions , or dif tracted with immoderate cares . Ray on the Creation . * IMMODERATELY . adv . [ from immode ...
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... means of impetration , and the meritorious caufe of it . Taylor It is the greatest folemnity of pray er , the most powerful liturgy , and means of im- petration in this world . Taylor . ( 2. ) IMPETRATION , was particularly used in the ...
... means of impetration , and the meritorious caufe of it . Taylor It is the greatest folemnity of pray er , the most powerful liturgy , and means of im- petration in this world . Taylor . ( 2. ) IMPETRATION , was particularly used in the ...
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... means of removing the actual injury of falfe imprisonment are fourfold . 1. By writ of MAIN- PRIZE . 2. By writ De OTIO ET ATIA . 3. By writ De HOMINE REPLEGIANDO . 4. By writ of HA- BEAS CORPUS . See thofe articles . The fatisfactory ...
... means of removing the actual injury of falfe imprisonment are fourfold . 1. By writ of MAIN- PRIZE . 2. By writ De OTIO ET ATIA . 3. By writ De HOMINE REPLEGIANDO . 4. By writ of HA- BEAS CORPUS . See thofe articles . The fatisfactory ...
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... means of grace . Rogers.- Virtue conceal'd within our breast , · Is inactivity at beft . Savift . * INADEQUATE . adj . [ in and adequatus , Lat . ] Not equal to the purpofe ; defective ; falling be low the due proportion.- Remorfe for ...
... means of grace . Rogers.- Virtue conceal'd within our breast , · Is inactivity at beft . Savift . * INADEQUATE . adj . [ in and adequatus , Lat . ] Not equal to the purpofe ; defective ; falling be low the due proportion.- Remorfe for ...
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Page 229 - Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 114 - ... even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the Holy See; and as far as the...
Page 243 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 47 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 170 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page 126 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Page 130 - ... first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the attorney general : secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they are filed by the king's coroner and attorney in the court of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this purpose the standing officer of the public.
Page 136 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients ; and from motions to the forces producing them ; and, in general, from effects to their causes ; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Page 139 - IV. A fourth rule, or canon of descents, is this ; that the lineal descendants, in ir\finituni, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.
Page 170 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.