The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... Parallel Sailing Middle Latitude Sailing Mercator's Sailing Oblique Sailing Windward Sailing 293 295 301 307 311 Current Sailing Maps and Charts 313 319 CHAP . X. OF DRAWING , PAINTING , ENGRAVING 326 Drawing ib . Perspective 827 ...
... Parallel Sailing Middle Latitude Sailing Mercator's Sailing Oblique Sailing Windward Sailing 293 295 301 307 311 Current Sailing Maps and Charts 313 319 CHAP . X. OF DRAWING , PAINTING , ENGRAVING 326 Drawing ib . Perspective 827 ...
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... parallel to the equator , such circles will serve to point out the latitudes of the several places through which they pass , from which property they are called parallels of latitude ; and being described with radii successively less ...
... parallel to the equator , such circles will serve to point out the latitudes of the several places through which they pass , from which property they are called parallels of latitude ; and being described with radii successively less ...
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... parallel to the equator , these two circles will represent the earth's situation at the time of the solstices , where it begins to turn back towards the equator : and hence these circles are called tropics , from a Greek term signifying ...
... parallel to the equator , these two circles will represent the earth's situation at the time of the solstices , where it begins to turn back towards the equator : and hence these circles are called tropics , from a Greek term signifying ...
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... parallel to the equator , as high up as to the polar circles and the narrow bands , or zones , included between these circles , were termed climates , from a Greek word signifying a gradual inclination ; so that whatever was the length ...
... parallel to the equator , as high up as to the polar circles and the narrow bands , or zones , included between these circles , were termed climates , from a Greek word signifying a gradual inclination ; so that whatever was the length ...
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... parallel of latitude would be found by stating this propor- tion ; as radius to the sine - complement of the latitude of the given place , so are the number of English miles in a de- gree of longitude on the equator , to the number in a ...
... parallel of latitude would be found by stating this propor- tion ; as radius to the sine - complement of the latitude of the given place , so are the number of English miles in a de- gree of longitude on the equator , to the number in a ...
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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.