Elements of general knowledge: introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science. With lists of the most approved authors; including the best editions of the classics, designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools. By Henry Kett, ... In two volumesMessrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Whitehall; Hanwell and Parker, and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1803 |
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... less to their frame , than to the places of their abode . Their organs of motion and mode of fubfiftence are exactly fuited to their wants and fituations . The fins of the fish , the antennae of infects , which guard their eyes , and ...
... less to their frame , than to the places of their abode . Their organs of motion and mode of fubfiftence are exactly fuited to their wants and fituations . The fins of the fish , the antennae of infects , which guard their eyes , and ...
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... less near or remote , according to the folidity or foftnefs of the wood . The lines , which form the texture of fir - trees , are diftant ; but those of oak are clofe and compact . - And this difference of tex- ture may serve to account ...
... less near or remote , according to the folidity or foftnefs of the wood . The lines , which form the texture of fir - trees , are diftant ; but those of oak are clofe and compact . - And this difference of tex- ture may serve to account ...
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... less founded upon invariable principles , the knowledge of which would be of infinite utility to the artist " , " " This art is not only of advantage to agricul- ture , phyfic , mineralogy , and medicine , but its phenomena are ...
... less founded upon invariable principles , the knowledge of which would be of infinite utility to the artist " , " " This art is not only of advantage to agricul- ture , phyfic , mineralogy , and medicine , but its phenomena are ...
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... less to conftruct a hand , or any other organ of contrivance or execution . All living creatures , plants , animals , and men , confti- tute one chain of univerfal being from the be ginning to the end of the world . Our own ftruc ture ...
... less to conftruct a hand , or any other organ of contrivance or execution . All living creatures , plants , animals , and men , confti- tute one chain of univerfal being from the be ginning to the end of the world . Our own ftruc ture ...
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... less than that of the produce of England . And it is fuppofed by competent judges that the Americans are far from having ac- quired any great degree of skill in the management of their lands ; nor have they as yet adopted those ...
... less than that of the produce of England . And it is fuppofed by competent judges that the Americans are far from having ac- quired any great degree of skill in the management of their lands ; nor have they as yet adopted those ...
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Seite 396 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 397 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Seite 335 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end: of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Seite 319 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Seite 221 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Seite 42 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 108 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Seite 52 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Seite 349 - Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring death prepar'd the blow, His vig'rous remedy display'd The power of art without the show.
Seite 206 - Both day and night: how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?