An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation |
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... never be despised : it is by such means mankind are governed . " The Dictionary embraces the more important of these ; but names like Caligula , Guercino , Tintoretto , & c . , which have en- tirely superseded the real names of the ...
... never be despised : it is by such means mankind are governed . " The Dictionary embraces the more important of these ; but names like Caligula , Guercino , Tintoretto , & c . , which have en- tirely superseded the real names of the ...
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... never more than a temporary and local fashion , which- cording to Smart- has been generally laid aside in England , and which seems to be going out of use in America , in those parts where it has hitherto prevailed . The brief a ...
... never more than a temporary and local fashion , which- cording to Smart- has been generally laid aside in England , and which seems to be going out of use in America , in those parts where it has hitherto prevailed . The brief a ...
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... never silent ; but that , when it occurs after a vowel , it is commonly suppressed by careless or uneducated speakers . W , Y. § 10. The sounds signified by w and y , when these letters occur at the be- ginning of a word or syllable ...
... never silent ; but that , when it occurs after a vowel , it is commonly suppressed by careless or uneducated speakers . W , Y. § 10. The sounds signified by w and y , when these letters occur at the be- ginning of a word or syllable ...
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... never that of a has usually the sound of the English a in far , father ; when short , nearly that INTRODUCTION . xxiii to CONSONANTS, ACCENT, BRIEF RULES FOR THE PRONUNCIATION CIATION THE PRINCIPAL MODERN LANGUAGES OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE,
... never that of a has usually the sound of the English a in far , father ; when short , nearly that INTRODUCTION . xxiii to CONSONANTS, ACCENT, BRIEF RULES FOR THE PRONUNCIATION CIATION THE PRINCIPAL MODERN LANGUAGES OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE,
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... never that of a in fate . Â , in French , has a sound resembling that of a in far , but deeper and less distinct , verging toward that of a in all its peculiar quality is due to the retraction of the tongue and the soft palate . A ...
... never that of a in fate . Â , in French , has a sound resembling that of a in far , but deeper and less distinct , verging toward that of a in all its peculiar quality is due to the retraction of the tongue and the soft palate . A ...
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Page 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 207 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 26 - Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
Page 391 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 240 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
Page 379 - City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving, by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair ; a fair, wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity ; and that it should last all the year long...
Page 332 - French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.
Page 406 - Last May we made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day; Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May; And we danced about the may-pole and in the hazel copse, Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.
Page 214 - Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 193 - successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their ' brethren of England, but the romance of Tom Jones, ' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive ' the Palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of 'the House of Austria.