单词 | cozenage |
例句 | It is true, he delivered it into his hand, desiring that he would hold it till he had sworn; but that artifice was a plain cozenage, and it was prettily discovered. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z By cozenage almost incredible, Benjamin, at the age of eighteen, had been thus lured off to London; the London of Addison, Pope and Sir Isaac Newton. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Their system of cozenage is not only applied to persons outside the profession, from whom they expect material gains; it is always at work to take in and delude the members of the guild. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Or what should I say of the oppressions, injustice, cozenage in trading and in merchandise, which yourselves know better than I can do how much they have abounded in the kingdom? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind. The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth. St. Cuthbert's David suspected this cozenage in himself, when he cries out, Oh! The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Priesthood, that sells even to their prayers and blessings And forces us to pay for our own cozenage! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Antonyms: See indecent. deception, n. imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy, ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggery. Putnam's Word Book And thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage. The Decameron, Volume II But all these are trifles in comparison, if we step into other scenes, and consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers; that insatiable gulf of injustice and oppression, the law. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. From Chaucer to Tennyson Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to-morrow? Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery. She Stands Accused In the twenty-third, the sentiment is at variance with Dryden: 'Strange cozenage! none would live past years again.' The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 His art is nothing but delightful cozenage, whose rules are smoothing and guarded with perjury; whose scope is to make men fools in teaching them to overvalue themselves, and to tickle his friends to death. Character Writings of the 17th Century Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give927.' Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 "They say this town is full of cozenage, As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, And many such like libertines of sin." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 Hope never stooped to falser cozenage; we were to be rudely undeceived. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca I will pray there, Against thy house: may dogs defile thy walls, And wasps and hornets breed beneath thy roof, This seat of falsehood, and this cave of cozenage! The Alchemist Well, if he be in prison, I'll have warrants To 'tach my daughter till the law be tried, For I will sue him upon cozenage. The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. |
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