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In exhibiting the descent of our language, our etymologists seem to have been
too lavish of their learning, having traced almost every word through various
tongues, only to shew what was shewn sufficiently by the first derivation. This
practice ...
In exhibiting the descent of our language, our etymologists seem to have been
too lavish of their learning, having traced almost every word through various
tongues, only to shew what was shewn sufficiently by the first derivation. This
practice ...
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... which to careless or unskilful perusers appear only to repeat the same sense,
will often exhibit, to a more accurate examiner, diversities of signification, or, at
least, afford different shades of the same meaning : one will shew the word
applied ...
... which to careless or unskilful perusers appear only to repeat the same sense,
will often exhibit, to a more accurate examiner, diversities of signification, or, at
least, afford different shades of the same meaning : one will shew the word
applied ...
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Shew me, Shew me. (1) Aroint thee, witch, In one of the folio editions the reading
is anoint thee, in a sense very consistent with the common accounts of witches,
who are related to perform many supernatural acts by the means of unguents, ...
Shew me, Shew me. (1) Aroint thee, witch, In one of the folio editions the reading
is anoint thee, in a sense very consistent with the common accounts of witches,
who are related to perform many supernatural acts by the means of unguents, ...
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... fortuitous and conjectural, and has often succeeded by chance rather than by
conduct, it will be proper to shew that a distribution of parts has been attempted,
which, though rude and inadequate, will at least preserve some order, and
enable ...
... fortuitous and conjectural, and has often succeeded by chance rather than by
conduct, it will be proper to shew that a distribution of parts has been attempted,
which, though rude and inadequate, will at least preserve some order, and
enable ...
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The usefulness of Agriculture I have already shewn ; I shall now, therefore, prove
its necessity : and having before declared, that it produces the chief riches of a
nation, I shall proceed to shew, that it gives its only riches, the only riches which ...
The usefulness of Agriculture I have already shewn ; I shall now, therefore, prove
its necessity : and having before declared, that it produces the chief riches of a
nation, I shall proceed to shew, that it gives its only riches, the only riches which ...
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