The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... elevation , and then disappear or set in the west , it is natural for us to imagine that these bodies are actually in motion from east to west , whilst we on the earth are per- fectly fixed and motionless : but when our views of the mag ...
... elevation , and then disappear or set in the west , it is natural for us to imagine that these bodies are actually in motion from east to west , whilst we on the earth are per- fectly fixed and motionless : but when our views of the mag ...
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... elevation , and consequently it is then mid - day or noon at London . As every spot on the face of the globe must have its own meridian , or point opposite to the sun at mid - day , the number of meridians must of course be indefinite ...
... elevation , and consequently it is then mid - day or noon at London . As every spot on the face of the globe must have its own meridian , or point opposite to the sun at mid - day , the number of meridians must of course be indefinite ...
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... elevation , however , being only about of the diameter , is such , that the earth may , in general , be regarded as presenting every where a smooth even sur- face . part The land on the globe is divided chiefly into two great portions ...
... elevation , however , being only about of the diameter , is such , that the earth may , in general , be regarded as presenting every where a smooth even sur- face . part The land on the globe is divided chiefly into two great portions ...
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... elevation and depression , until the force of the impulse communicated by the stone is exhaust- ed , and the circles totally disappear ; but , if the impulse has been considerable , these circles are continued to the margin of the pond ...
... elevation and depression , until the force of the impulse communicated by the stone is exhaust- ed , and the circles totally disappear ; but , if the impulse has been considerable , these circles are continued to the margin of the pond ...
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... elevation has yet been accurately ascertained . The second column gives the elevation as determined by means of the barome- ter ; the third column , that discovered by geometrical ope- rations and when the methods by which the ...
... elevation has yet been accurately ascertained . The second column gives the elevation as determined by means of the barome- ter ; the third column , that discovered by geometrical ope- rations and when the methods by which the ...
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action affections agreeable America ancient angle appear axis beauty body breadth called Cape centre chief town circle climate coast colours columns connections consequently considerable contains copper course creature Danube degree of longitude discovered distance divided dominical letter dominions duty earth east ecliptic elevation England English miles epact equal equator Europe extending feet France geographic miles globe gulf of Venice happiness height human inhabitants Ireland island isles Italy lakes latitude length light longitude mankind meridian mind minutes moon moral mountains nature northern objects obligation observed painting parallel PARALLEL SAILING passions perpendicular petrifactions plane plane sailing Poland pole portion Portugal principal produced proportion reckoned rising river round Russia sailed Scotland sense ship shores side situated southern Spain square miles substance sun's supposed surface Sweden temper tion tracts various vast virtue whole
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Seite 381 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the Workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the Stems of a clump of Trees...
Seite 338 - ... intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Seite 339 - NOR whilst I recommend studying the art from artists, can I be supposed to mean, that nature is to be neglected: I take this study in aid, and not in exclusion, of the other. Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from. which all excellencies must originally flow.
Seite 492 - ... from the virtuous character. It is the cement of society, or that pervading spirit which connects its members, inspires its various relations, and maintains the order and subordination of each part to the whole. Without it, society would become a den of thieves and banditti, hating and hated, devouring and devoured, by one another.
Seite 238 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Seite 482 - Let avarice defend it as it will, there is an honest reluctance in humanity against buying and selling, and regarding those of our own species as our wealth and possessions.
Seite 417 - Senfes of Pleafure invite him to new Purfuits ; he grows fenfible to the Attractions of Beauty, feels a peculiar Sympathy with the Sex, and forms a more tender kind of Attachment than he has yet experienced. This becomes the Cement of a new Moral Relation, and gives a fofter Turn to his Paflions and Behaviour.
Seite 414 - Destination of Man, or in other words what his Business is, or what Conduct he is obliged to pursue, we must inspect his Constitution, take every Part to pieces, examine their mutual Relations one to the other, and the common Effort or Tendency of the...
Seite 474 - ... moral connection, the spring of many domestic endearments, has measured out to each pair a particular sphere of action, proportioned to their views, and adapted to their respective capacities.
Seite 439 - They shew mankind in every attitude and variety of character, and give virtue both its struggles and its triumphs.