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 ; in Two Volumes. 1Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 564 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... Examples of the Greek Claffics prove how admirably it was adapted to fubjects of Poetry - Eloquence- Hiftory - and ... example to be recommend- ed to the English Public Speaker . Succefsfully imitated by the Marquis of Wharton , Lord ...
... Examples of the Greek Claffics prove how admirably it was adapted to fubjects of Poetry - Eloquence- Hiftory - and ... example to be recommend- ed to the English Public Speaker . Succefsfully imitated by the Marquis of Wharton , Lord ...
Pagina xix
... examples neceffary to form a good Reafoner . P. 53-81 . CHAP . II . THE MATHEMATICS . I. The Utilility of Mathematical Knowledge . Opinion of Locke favourable to fcientific purfuits - their great perfpi- cuity - the method of reafoning ...
... examples neceffary to form a good Reafoner . P. 53-81 . CHAP . II . THE MATHEMATICS . I. The Utilility of Mathematical Knowledge . Opinion of Locke favourable to fcientific purfuits - their great perfpi- cuity - the method of reafoning ...
Pagina 8
... example of the Saviour of the world , as reprefented by the holy Evangelifts - his actions marked by the pureft benevolence , his precepts tending im- mediately to the happiness of man , and his promises capable of exciting the moft ...
... example of the Saviour of the world , as reprefented by the holy Evangelifts - his actions marked by the pureft benevolence , his precepts tending im- mediately to the happiness of man , and his promises capable of exciting the moft ...
Pagina 28
... example shine before their depraved con- temporaries . II . The Character of our Lord . This character , as reprefented in the plain and energetic narratives of the Evangelifts , is marked by qualities the most extraordinary , and the ...
... example shine before their depraved con- temporaries . II . The Character of our Lord . This character , as reprefented in the plain and energetic narratives of the Evangelifts , is marked by qualities the most extraordinary , and the ...
Pagina 34
... example with the perfection of pre- cept , became the unerring guide to all that was Formam quidem ipfam , & tanquam faciem honefti vides ; quæ fi oculis cerneretur , mirabiles amores , ut ait Plato , ex- citaret fapientiæ . Cicero de ...
... example with the perfection of pre- cept , became the unerring guide to all that was Formam quidem ipfam , & tanquam faciem honefti vides ; quæ fi oculis cerneretur , mirabiles amores , ut ait Plato , ex- citaret fapientiæ . Cicero de ...
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Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Volledige weergave - 1806 |
Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Volledige weergave - 1806 |
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Pagina 540 - ... of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
Pagina 48 - I here give you then} to dispose of. £The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him...
Pagina 109 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 204 - ... as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Pagina 30 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies; let her follow him to the Mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
Pagina 276 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Pagina 197 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Pagina 523 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Pagina 497 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Pagina 52 - When therefore the obligations of morality are taught, let the fanctions of chriftianity never be forgotten ; by which it will be fhewn, that they give ftrength and luftre to each other ; religion will appear to be the voice of reafon, and morality the will of GOD.