tw 
one by the terms of the definition. In 
the fenfe of the Gentiles, Chrift is un- 
demably God > in the fenfe of the Jews, 
_ Chritt is undeniably: not God. 
Alone, for other creature in this place, 
Living or lifelefs, to be found was none. 
Milton. 
I go alone, 
Like to a lonely dragon,-that-his fen 
Makes fear’d and talk’d of, though but-fel- 
dom feen. Shak/peare. 
- For the adjective lonefome authorities 
cun be adduced; but it is umpurely 
formed; the iyllable Jome being the am- 
perative mood of famnian, to gather, 
¢an only unite with fubtiantive etymons, 
as In /portjome, irk sfome, healjome, length- 
if buxome, Hoatfome, jetpome, hg fone, 
for ome, lightjome, tircjume, game (fome, 
&c.; here it occurs in union with the 
adjective fone, and forms an infignificant 
compound, like the words with-alone. 
To fiudy. 
Studere, to ftudy, appears to be a 
privative of the unperfonal verb tedere, 
to grow weary: he ftudies who does not 
tire of application. 
Leornan and laeran, to learn, are ety- 
mologically connected with words figni- 
fying to borrow: he learns who borrows 
from his matter intellectual ftores. 
To ftudy implies unifona application 
in purfuit of knowledge; to learn im- 
plies fuccefsful application. We ttudy 
to learn ; we learn by dint of fiudy. 
Lively men. fiudy with dificulty, but 
To learn. 
dearn with eafe, 
The more we learn the more we know. 
There are théfe who the more. they 
fiudy the lefs they know. He has itu- 
died well who has learned to doubt. 
There are many things we learn with- 
out ftudy; there are ‘others we ttud y 
without learning. 
Thofe are not the wifeft who have 
ftudied mofi, but who have learned 
moft. 
Youth is the time vise fiudy, 
hood is the time for learning. 
but man- 
To remark. To objerce. 
’ To remark, is to mark again for the 
purpofe of remembering: to. obferve, is 
to watch over, as a fhepherd does his 
fheep. To remark, unplies oly atten- 
tion; to obferve, implies drift, er, pur- 
afe : hence we call the ttatement of an 
indivdual fact, a remark ; and the flate- 
ment of an inference, aa ‘abfervation, ‘ 
Contributions to English Synonymy. 
(Feb. 1, 
‘A traveller remarks the moft finking 
objects he fees.’— Blair. 
“Remember that as thine eye obferves 
others, fo art thou obferved by angels 
and by inen.’—Jeremy Taylor. 
‘Tf the remarker would but once try 
to outfhine the author, by writing a bet- 
ter book on the fame fubject, he would 
foon be convinced of his own infuthci< 
ency.— Watts. 
© He reads much 5 
He is a great obferver ; and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men.’—Shak/peares 
To aknowlege. To confefs. To avow. 
To aknowleze, is to make known; to 
confefs, 1s to make known by Joeaking 
with another ; to avew, 1s to make known 
‘by declaration before the cods (ad and 
vovere). Simple expolure, private par- 
ticipation, and ge promulgation, % are 
the ideas reipectively fuggefted. 
We aknowlege~ our taults to one ans 
other; we contefs them to the prieft ; we 
avow then: in public worthip, To aknow- 
lege defire’; to confefs illicit intercourfe ; 
to avow marriage. <A gentleman aknowe 
feges his miitakes. A prifoner confeffes 
his crimes. A patriot avows his oppor 
fition. 
Dr. Johnfon characterizes to aknowe 
lege as a hybrid word, produced between 
Latin and Englith : it is of wholly Eng- 
lith genealogy, ‘and formed by the fame 
rule of analogy as ¢o accompany, to ace 
couple, to accufiom, to affront. 
Difficulty. “Ubjlacle. 
A difficulty renders our progrefs ue 
eafy (dis and facilis), an obitacle with 
flands it (ob and flare): we furmount 
the one; we remove the other. The 
frit defcribes impediment arifing from 
the nature and circumitances of the af 
fair; the fecond deicribes hinderance 
from a foreign caufe. Philip found a 
diticulty in managing the Athenians, 
from the nature of their difpohtions; he 
found an obttacle m the eloquence of 
Demofthenes. 
Prudence. . Wifdom. _ 
Prudense is a contraction of provie 
dence, which means forefight. Wifdom, 
being derived frem wiffen, to know, fig- 
nifies knowlege. Prudence is hypothe- 
tical wifdam; and wildom is realifed 
prudence. Cautious people, who aét 
from protpective motives, are called pru- 
dent. Prudent people, who atta them 
ends, are called wife, ee 
; ? Succels 
