47 Verbs to Use for the Word ii
'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in imitation of Johnson), iii. 301; 'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82; 'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii.
'Stay till I am well, and then you shall tell me how to cure myself,' ii. 260.
'It appears to me that I labour when I say a good thing,' iii. 260; v. 77; 'No man loves labour for itself,' ii. 99.
'Jonas acquired some reputation by travelling abroad, but lost it all by travelling at home,' ii. 122.
[317:2] Compare H.E. ii. 15 and vi. 14.
33, n. 3 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance,' i. 293; 'Sir, you talk the language of ignorance,' ii. 122. IGNORANT.
'Every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal,' ii.
'When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,' ii. 466.
'Why don't you dash away like Burney?' ii. 409.
'I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read,' ii. 48, n. 2; 'No man was ever written down but by himself (Bentley), v. 274.
'I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian,' ii. 298. RUFFLE.
'He died of want of attention,' ii.
'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii.
'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.
'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.
'He fills weak heads with imaginary claims,' ii.
'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57. HOPE.
He gave it just throttle enough to pull the load, and made no effort to hurry ii, and still had power to spare.
166; controversy with, about Mrs. Montagu, v. 245; dines with her, iv. 166; hospitality to, iii. 45; introduced to her, ii. 77; 'loves,' ii. 145, 206; MS. Journal, reads, ii. 383; proposes an epistle in her name, v. 139; British Synonymy, iv.
'If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still,' v. 316; 'The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death,' ii. 93; 'We are getting out of a state of death,' ii. 461; 'Who can run the race with death?' iv.
'Let the authority of the English government perish rather than be maintained by iniquity,' ii.
246, n. 5; 'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233. COMMONPLACES.
STEELE, Sir Richard, Addison's loan, iv. 52, 91; Apology, ii. 448, n. 3; British Princes, ridicules the, ii. 108, n. 2; Christian Hero, ii. 448; Conscious Lovers, i. 491, n. 3; grammar-schools, account of, i. 44, n. 2; Ince, praise of, iii. 33; Marlborough's, Duke of, papers, v. 175, n. 1; old age, ii. 474, n. 3; 'practised the lighter vices,' ii.
'You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill,' ii. 88. SCOTCH.
This teaching and example are shown in effect when the assembled apostles were "at the third hour of the day" praying (Acts ii. 15); when about the sixth hour Peter went to pray (Acts x. 9).