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The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
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- The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
- Author
- Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.
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- London :: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop at the great north gate of Pauls Church,
- 1623.
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"The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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yeares olde, went to the Troyan warre, he was ex∣ceeding wise and elo∣quent.
Cicero, for eloquence, learning, and wit, had not his equal amongst the Ro∣manes.
Roscius, an excellent Commedian, who for his pronunciation surpassed, hee contended with Cicero for superiority, whether he could deliuer a speech with more varieties of ge∣sture: or Tully pen it with more diuersities of elo∣quence and phrase, Tully called him his Iewell.
Sophocles, a tragicall Poet of Athens, who for his sweet and eloquent stile was called Apis.