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 Th Classics. Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 1Messrs. Rivington, 1803 |
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... followed , can give proper activity to every faculty of the mind , inafmuch as they engage the judg- ment , the memory , and the imagination , in an agreeable exercife , and are affociated for one bene- ficial purpose - like the genial ...
... followed , can give proper activity to every faculty of the mind , inafmuch as they engage the judg- ment , the memory , and the imagination , in an agreeable exercife , and are affociated for one bene- ficial purpose - like the genial ...
Pagina 101
... followed the movement of the hand from left to right , which to an European appears most natural and easy : accordingly all the western nations place their letters in this order . On the contrary , it was the prevailing cuftom of the ...
... followed the movement of the hand from left to right , which to an European appears most natural and easy : accordingly all the western nations place their letters in this order . On the contrary , it was the prevailing cuftom of the ...
Pagina 207
... followed in the compofition of an Epic Poem ; and yet Commentators have not been wanting , who have endeavoured to reduce the moft impaffioned speeches in Virgil to the fame re- gular divifions , as the orations of Cicero . There may be ...
... followed in the compofition of an Epic Poem ; and yet Commentators have not been wanting , who have endeavoured to reduce the moft impaffioned speeches in Virgil to the fame re- gular divifions , as the orations of Cicero . There may be ...
Pagina 223
... followed the Grecians : their military talents were displayed in a long fucceffion of con- quefts and triumphs in every part of the ancient world . The monuments of their genius , which the ravages of time have fpared , render them next ...
... followed the Grecians : their military talents were displayed in a long fucceffion of con- quefts and triumphs in every part of the ancient world . The monuments of their genius , which the ravages of time have fpared , render them next ...
Pagina 243
... followed . Expedients fpringing from our own minds are formed with more clear- nefs , and executed with more fpirit , than those which VOL . I.腐 Ꭱ of which are derived from the imitation of others . HISTORY IN GENERAL . 241.
... followed . Expedients fpringing from our own minds are formed with more clear- nefs , and executed with more fpirit , than those which VOL . I.腐 Ꭱ of which are derived from the imitation of others . HISTORY IN GENERAL . 241.
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Pagina 444 - 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 31 - 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 92 - It must have come by inspiration. A thousand, nay, a million of children could not invent a language. While the organs are pliable, there is not understanding enough to form a language; by the time that there is understanding enough, the organs are become stiff. We know that after a certain age we cannot learn to pronounce a new language. No foreigner, who...
Pagina 27 - But without at all attending to this, they lay the facts before you, at no pains to think whether they would appear credible or not. If the reader will not believe their testimony, there is no help for it : they tell the truth, and attend to nothing else. Surely this looks like sincerity, and that they published nothing to the world but what they believed themselves.
Pagina 443 - In which sad progress, passing along by the rest of the army, where his uncle the general was, and being thirsty with excess of bleeding, he called for drink which was presently brought him ; but as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along, who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle. Which Sir Philip perceiving, took it from his head before he drank, and delivered it to the poor man with these words, Thy necessity is yet...
Pagina 396 - We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up, or cut down, all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world: but after some continuance it shall begin to lose the beauty it had; the storms of ambition shall beat her great boughs and branches one against another; her leaves shall fall off, her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down.
Pagina 284 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Pagina 404 - Baltic coast. The prostrate South to the Destroyer yields Her boasted titles, and her golden fields : With grim delight the Brood of winter view A brighter day, and Heav'ns of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. Proud of the yoke, and pliant to the rod, Why yet does Asia dread a monarch's nod, While European freedom still withstands Th...
Pagina 284 - and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed.
Pagina 267 - They say, Become Jews or Christians, that ye may be directed. Say, Nay, we follow the religion of ABRAHAM the orthodox, who was no idolater. Say, We believe in GOD, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto ABRAHAM, and ISMAEL...