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(grammar) Initialism of verb intransitive or intransitive verb (often in dictionaries)
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Poetry examples for “vi”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →to 216. V. How odious Vice in itself, and how we deceive ourselves into
it, v.217. VI. That, however, the Ends of Providence and general Good
are answered in our Passions and Imperfections, v.238, etc. How usefully
Read full poem →Societies, v.196. Origin of Monarchy, v.207. Patriarchal Government,
v.212. VI. Origin of true Religion and Government, from the same
principle, of Love, v.231, etc. Origin of Superstition and Tyranny, from
Read full poem →not judges who are good; but that, whoever they are, they must be
happiest, v.133, etc. VI. That external goods are not the proper
rewards, but often inconsistent with, or destructive of Virtue, v.165.
Read full poem →VI. v. 173, &c. _The_ unreasonableness _of his complaints against_
Providence, _while on the one hand he demands the
Read full poem →155. hailed, cf. 1. 60—“‘ snow'd it down,”’ VI. 50—“ rain,” and our ex-
pression, ‘‘showered.”’
Read full poem →Grosvenor to G. Treby, M.P., Aug. 17, 1678.— Hisl.
MSS.Comm., I3(h Repon. Ft. VI. p. B). Hewashuiied
onthei8lh("LifeofAnthony Wood," ed. Clark, II. 414).
Read full poem →closing of the coffee-houses because public
affairs vi^ere there freely discussed, come these
ominous lines : —
Read full poem →are hours in which even gravity \a g\iiAv.c>tte\ , i'5.,a.TAu\>\Vc*5>
reloads only to fill up such horns, wWv\*>e\«vi'«v">a."'*i
s temper jg clouded, and thehcai -wou\ft »&"* ^ ^
Read full poem →Uiaiiy divisions, si^cm to have built on the foundation of St. Paul, who in like mamier carries
on a metaphor from armour throuzh its se\'cral parts. ' Ephesians vi. 1 1.