The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... duty of the navigator to avail himself of every method of ascertaining his position during his voyage , various modes of calculating a ship's place have been adopt- ed , such as Plane sailing , Traverse sailing , Parallel sailing , Midd ...
... duty of the navigator to avail himself of every method of ascertaining his position during his voyage , various modes of calculating a ship's place have been adopt- ed , such as Plane sailing , Traverse sailing , Parallel sailing , Midd ...
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... duty of the historian of nature and society to represent objects and facts correctly , and precisely as they exist or occur , with all their imper- fections or blemishes : but the painter resembles the poet , whose business it is not to ...
... duty of the historian of nature and society to represent objects and facts correctly , and precisely as they exist or occur , with all their imper- fections or blemishes : but the painter resembles the poet , whose business it is not to ...
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... duty . The artist must therefore endeavour , by the disposition of the several parts of his work , to express in the most obvious and lively way what his invention haş provided . The chief difficulty in disposition is to produce the ...
... duty . The artist must therefore endeavour , by the disposition of the several parts of his work , to express in the most obvious and lively way what his invention haş provided . The chief difficulty in disposition is to produce the ...
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... duty , which it traces from man's nature and condition , and shews to ter- minate in his happiness . " Therefore it is called Ethics , disciplina morum . In fewer words , it is the " knowledge of our duty and felicity , or the art of ...
... duty , which it traces from man's nature and condition , and shews to ter- minate in his happiness . " Therefore it is called Ethics , disciplina morum . In fewer words , it is the " knowledge of our duty and felicity , or the art of ...
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... duty and happiness , must be a proper canon or standard , by which the dignity and importance of every other art and science are to be ascertained . It is there- fore pre - eminent above all others ; it is that master - art , that ...
... duty and happiness , must be a proper canon or standard , by which the dignity and importance of every other art and science are to be ascertained . It is there- fore pre - eminent above all others ; it is that master - art , that ...
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affections Africa agreeable America ancient angle appear axis beauty body breadth called Cape centre chief town circle climate coast colours columns connections consequently contains course degree of longitude difference of longitude distance divided dominical letter duty earth east ecliptic elevation England English miles epact equal equator Europe extending feet France geographic miles globe gulf of Venice happiness heat human inhabitants Ireland island isles Italy lakes land latitude length light London longitude meridian mind minutes moon moral motion mountains nature northern Norway objects obligation observed ocean parallel passions perpendicular petrifactions plane plane sailing pole portion Portugal principal produced proportion rays reckoned rising river round Russia sailed Scotland sense ship shores side situated South America south pole southern Spain square miles sun's supposed surface Sweden temper tion tracts various virtue whole
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Seite 351 - The great use of studying our predecessors is, to open the mind, to shorten our labour, and to give us the result of the selection made by those great minds of what is grand or beautiful in nature ; her rich stores are all spread out before us ; but it is an art, and...
Seite 54 - Bedford . Berks Buckingham Cambridge . Chester Cornwall Cumberland Derby . . Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucester . Hereford Hertford . Huntingdon Kent .... Lancaster . Leicester . Lincoln Middlesex . Monmouth . Norfolk . Northampton Northumberland Nottingham Oxford Rutland Salop .... Somerset Southampton Stafford Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwick . Westmoreland . Wilts.
Seite 389 - On the same principles they formed the spreading ramifications of the stone-work in the windows, and the stained glass in the interstices ; the one to represent the branches, and the other the leaves, of an opening Grove ; and both concurred to preserve that gloomy light which inspires religious reverence and dread.
Seite 351 - 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 533 - ... our veneration and love by an awful and devout recognition of his perfections, and to evidence our gratitude by celebrating his goodness, and thankfully acknowledging all his benefits.
Seite 490 - ... series of cares and labours, to train them up to decency, virtue, and the various arts of life. Nature has therefore provided them with the...
Seite 562 - Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body, and tranquillity of mind; the best guardian of youth, and support of old age...
Seite 500 - 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 432 - Affections, nor thofe confequent to the Actions, that conftitute MORAL OBLIGATION, or excite in us the Idea of it. That Pleafure is pofterior to the Idea of Obligation, and frequently we are obliged, and acknowledge ourfelves under an Obligation, to...
Seite 424 - Moral Philosophy has this in common with Natural Philosophy, that it appeals to nature or fact ; depends on observation ; and builds its reasonings on plain uncontroverted experiments, or upon the fullest induction of particulars of which the subject will admit.