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Johnson, whose ideas of anything not positively large were ever mingled with contempt, asked of one of our sharp currents in North Wales, "Has this brook e'er a name?" and received for answer, "Why, dear Sir, this is the River Ustrad." "Let us," said he, turning to his friend, "jump over it directly, and shew them how an Englishman should treat a Welsh river." Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 82.
He could not disoblige his neighbours by sending them no venison. Piozzi Letters, ii. 326. This remark has reference to family conversation. Robert was the eldest son of Sir L.S. Cotton, and lived at Lleweney. Paradise Lost, book xi. v. 642. See Mrs. Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 323, for an anecdote of this walk. Lleweney Hall was the residence of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mrs. Thrale's cousin german.
They are arranged by classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with the denominations adopted by the author of the method, and consequently designated by specific names in French for HAUeY'S method, and in German for that of WERNER. The proximity of the two apartments where they are exhibited, affords every advantage for comparing both methods, and acquiring an exact knowledge of mineralogical synonymy.
With regard to work, I am doing but little I am afraid I have no good habit of systematic work. I have been gradually getting parts of my collections in order, but the obscurities of synonymy and descriptions, the difficulty of examining specimens, and my very limited library, make it wearisome work.
British Synonymy was published in 1794, later therefore than Boswell's first and second editions. In both these the latter half of this paragraph ran as follows: "From the specimen which Mrs.
'Being become very weak and helpless it was thought necessary that a man should watch with him all night; and one was found in the neighbourhood for half a crown a night. Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 589. It was on Nov. 30 that he repeated these lines. See Croker's Boswell, p. 843. British Synonymy, i. 359. Mrs. I have enclosed a short song of congratulation which you must not shew to anybody.
"So Indian murd'rers hope to gain The powers and virtues of the slain, Of wretches they destroy." Vide Memoires du Cardinal de Retz. Vide Sir W. Hamilton's account of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This fact, we believe, is mentioned in a letter of Mrs. Cappe's on parish schools. Vide Mrs. Piozzi's English Synonymy. John Lydgate.
The ideas in your introduction regarding synonymy are precious; would that our linguistic purists were imbued with them! We will not, however, contaminate such lofty affairs with the lamentable blunders whereby the German nation is corrupting its language from the very foundation, an evil which will not be perceived for thirty years.
It is a remark in frequent use in France, that the caps of liberty are without heads, and the trees of liberty without root. The poplar has been selected from all the other trees of the forest, for this distinguished honour, from a whimsical synonymy of its name with that of the people. In french, the poplar is called peuplier, and the word peuple signifies people.
The Dyaks distinguish three different kinds, which are known in Europe by skulls or skeletons only, much confusion still existing in their synonymy, and the external characters of the adult animals being almost or quite unknown.
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