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Dryden. Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world. Tillotson.

. by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South.

iples of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or like; also, the principles themselves.

management; extent of force or capacity. Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. Hayward. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. Pope.

In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay. We ourselves will go ready armed. Num. xxxii. 17.

he fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

To rescue; to deliver. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him. 2. Tim. ii. 26.

ed onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.

sult; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

ion of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker.

relation; reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts.

se into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives." Bp. Fell.

o used reflexively and impersonally. [Obs.] "Remembering them the trith of what they themselves known." Milton. My friends remembered me of home. Chapman. Remember you of passed heaviness. Chaucer. And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee. Chaucer.

or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.

velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.

hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God Tiilotson.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey.

and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.

ight wife." Chaucer. In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.