 ... in Johnson's dictionary,) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that all the others, however widely they may diverge from one another, and seem to recede from this one, may yet be affiliated upon it, may be brought back to the one central...  New Practical Speller - Page 152by James Hosmer Penniman - 1900 - 154 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1851 - 172 pages
...being lifted above all doubt (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's Dictionary) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...back to the one central meaning, which grasps and holds them all together; just as the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all this present... | |
 | 1853 - 826 pages
...lifted above all doubt, (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's Dictionary,) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in their first parents. "... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...lifted above all doubt, (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's Dictionary,) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in their first parents. Let... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1854 - 252 pages
...lifted above all doubt (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's dictionary), that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in their first parents. Let... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 280 pages
...lifted above all doubt (and the non-recognition of it is the ! great fault in Johnson's Dictionary,) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the one central meaning, which grasps and knits them altogether."* He unhesitatingly entertains the doctrine of past participles, as leading to the accomplishment... | |
 | Tolbert Fanning - 1854 - 148 pages
...of Divinity in King's College, London. He says, "A word has originally but one meaning, and that all others, however widely they may diverge from one another,...affiliated upon it, may be brought back to the one center meaning, which grasps and knits them altogether; just as the races of men ; black, white and... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1855 - 252 pages
...lifted above all doubt (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's dictionary), that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in their first parents. Let... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1855 - 810 pages
...lifted above all doubt, (and the non-recognition of it is the great fault in Johnson's Dictionary^) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in that one pair from whom... | |
 | 1859 - 684 pages
...widely they may diverge from one another arid recede from this one, may yet be affiliated upon it, brought back to the one central meaning, which grasps and knits them all together ; just as the several races of men, black, white, and yellow and red, despite of all their present diversity and... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1860 - 264 pages
...lifted above all doubt, (and the non-recognition of it is one great fault in Johnson's Dictionary^) that a word has originally but one meaning, and that...the races of men, black, white, and red, despite of all their present diversity and dispersion, have a central point of unity in that one pair from whom... | |
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