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... never used in composition . This class of words was employed by authors from Chaucer's time , or about the year 1400 , to the beginning of the seventeenth century . By the middle of that century they had ceased to be used in books , but ...
... never used in composition . This class of words was employed by authors from Chaucer's time , or about the year 1400 , to the beginning of the seventeenth century . By the middle of that century they had ceased to be used in books , but ...
Page xvi
... never published them ) , they will furnish 36,428 additional provincialisms , forming in the aggregate 59,000 words in the colloquial tongue of the lower classes , which can , for the chief part , produce proofs of legitimate origin ...
... never published them ) , they will furnish 36,428 additional provincialisms , forming in the aggregate 59,000 words in the colloquial tongue of the lower classes , which can , for the chief part , produce proofs of legitimate origin ...
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... never large , nor did they extend their settlements beyond the valley of the Mohawk and lands adjacent ; yet we find even in this thickly settled State , after a lapse of two hundred years , that they have left evident traces on our ...
... never large , nor did they extend their settlements beyond the valley of the Mohawk and lands adjacent ; yet we find even in this thickly settled State , after a lapse of two hundred years , that they have left evident traces on our ...
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... never seriously affect the language . Writers of political articles in the newspapers , stump - orators , and the members of legislative bodies , have added much to the English vocabulary . This class of words , though not remarkable ...
... never seriously affect the language . Writers of political articles in the newspapers , stump - orators , and the members of legislative bodies , have added much to the English vocabulary . This class of words , though not remarkable ...
Page xxix
... never die . " This , however , " does not begin " with Miss Wyatt , whose performances at Springfield , Illinois , are thus described in a criticism in one of the papers of that city : " Illumined by the lyric muse , she is magnificent ...
... never die . " This , however , " does not begin " with Miss Wyatt , whose performances at Springfield , Illinois , are thus described in a criticism in one of the papers of that city : " Illumined by the lyric muse , she is magnificent ...
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Page 276 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page xvi - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I. 2 vols, 8vo, containing upwards of 1,000 pages, closely printed In double columns, cloth, a new and cheaper edition.
Page 447 - But it suddenly ceased some time before day ; and as they had no communication with any of the enemy's ships, they did not know whether the fort had surrendered, or the attack upon it been abandoned.
Page 25 - Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
Page 448 - O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets...
Page 68 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 295 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained...
Page 280 - ... and richness, and power, and blessing; that they had apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists ; the same order, the same priesthood, the same ordinances, gifts, powers, and blessing, as was enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off...
Page 280 - ... enjoyed on the eastern continent ; that the people were cut off" in consequence of their transgressions; that the last of their prophets who existed among them was commanded to write an abridgment of their prophecies, history...
Page 413 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye-fields and wheat-fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.