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I have preferred the natural order, free, and familiar style, to the artificial order, grave, solemn, and antiquated style; and in so doing, I have had occasion to have reference to the vocal metaphrase of some words. With a due circumspection of the use of their synonymy, taking care that the import and acceptation of each phrase and word should not appear frequently synonymous. Again.
Siddons in the character of Murphy's Euphrasia were the noblest specimens of the human race I ever saw. Synonymy, i.43. He sprang from a race of rebels. 'He united in his person, says Forbes, 'the four earldoms of Errol, Kilmarnock, Linlithgow, and Callander. The last two were attainted in 1715, and Kilmarnock in 1745.
Many species are thus left as provisional; but, in proceeding thus, the progress of the science will be more regular, and the synonymy less dependent upon the caprice or the theoretical opinions of each author." This is safe and to a certain degree judicious, no doubt, as respects published species. Once admitted, they may stand until they are put down by evidence, direct or circumstantial.
I need the hypothesis of God to justify my style. In my ignorance of everything regarding God, the world, the soul, and destiny; forced to proceed like the materialist, that is, by observation and experience, and to conclude in the language of the believer, because there is no other; not knowing whether my formulas, theological in spite of me, would be taken literally or figuratively; in this perpetual contemplation of God, man, and things, obliged to submit to the synonymy of all the terms included in the three categories of thought, speech, and action, but wishing to affirm nothing on either one side or the other, rigorous logic demanded that I should suppose, no more, no less, this unknown that is called God.
Vagabond. Piozzi's Synonymy, ii. 358. Mme. Thrale to give one toast, and then, with smiling pomposity, pronouncing "The great Vagabond." 'Very near to admiration is the wish to admire. Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. Johnson's Works, vii. 396. See ante, ii. 461. See ante, ii. 465.
Johnson: 'Whether my Saviour's service may be best carried on here, or on the coast of Labrador, 'tis Mr. Hutton's business to settle. I will do my part either in a brick-house or a snow-house with equal alacrity. Piozzi's Synonymy, ii. 120. He is described also in the Memoirs of Dr. Burney, i. 251, 291. Ante, ii. 402.
Hist. xxix. 343. Gray's Elegy. Mrs. Piozzi maintained that 'mercy was totally abolished by French maxims; for, if all men are equal, mercy is no more. Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 370.
I venture to believe it will be a barrier against the Babel of confusion which tends to overwhelm the domain of zoological synonymy. My book will be called 'Nomenclator Zoologicus.". . . It appeared somewhat later, and was published by the Ray Society in England, in 1848, after Agassiz had left Europe for the United States.
If, on the contrary, we reserve the name "property" for the latter, we must designate the former by the term POSSESSION, or some other equivalent; otherwise we should be troubled with an unpleasant synonymy. What a blessing it would be if philosophers, daring for once to say all that they think, would speak the language of ordinary mortals!
But breath, it is acknowledged, is a material cause; it is allowed to be air modified; it is not, therefore, a simple or pure substance, such as the moderns designate under the name of SPIRIT. It is rather singular that in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Latin, the synonymy, or corresponding term for spirit should signify breath.
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