The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... kind . How the ancients came to be convinced of the spherical form of the earth , we have now no means of discovering : but , by attending to the following facts , we may easily be led to adopt the same opinion . When we stand on the ...
... kind . How the ancients came to be convinced of the spherical form of the earth , we have now no means of discovering : but , by attending to the following facts , we may easily be led to adopt the same opinion . When we stand on the ...
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... kind consisting of peat moors . Of these bogs , many instead of being flat and level , like a marsh in England , are varied into hill and dale , as if they were solid dry ground : their common productions are heath and coarse grass ...
... kind consisting of peat moors . Of these bogs , many instead of being flat and level , like a marsh in England , are varied into hill and dale , as if they were solid dry ground : their common productions are heath and coarse grass ...
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... kind of the strawberry tree , is one of the natural ornaments of the environs of the lake of Killarney . The culture of the po- tatoe is in Ireland carried to such a degree of extent and per- fection , as to become the principal article ...
... kind of the strawberry tree , is one of the natural ornaments of the environs of the lake of Killarney . The culture of the po- tatoe is in Ireland carried to such a degree of extent and per- fection , as to become the principal article ...
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... kind , are seen numbers of buffaloes , having a general resemblance to other horned cattle , and capable of supporting great fa tigue ; but their flesh is coarse , and the skin so strong as to afford the leather formerly used in armour ...
... kind , are seen numbers of buffaloes , having a general resemblance to other horned cattle , and capable of supporting great fa tigue ; but their flesh is coarse , and the skin so strong as to afford the leather formerly used in armour ...
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... and nearly of the same colour , with the same kind of hollow mark all round it , in shape it resembles a pear , and when perfectly ripe , the rind over the mark opens and discovers the mace , rind 172 THE MODERN PRECEPTOR .
... and nearly of the same colour , with the same kind of hollow mark all round it , in shape it resembles a pear , and when perfectly ripe , the rind over the mark opens and discovers the mace , rind 172 THE MODERN PRECEPTOR .
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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.