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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... directed to certain objects of public utility , according to which the majority of the British . people have agreed to be governed . " Or , according to a more popular mode of definition , it is " the legiflative and executive ...
... directed to certain objects of public utility , according to which the majority of the British . people have agreed to be governed . " Or , according to a more popular mode of definition , it is " the legiflative and executive ...
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... directed his attention to the internal regulation of his kingdom . He di- gefted the difcordant laws of the heptarchy into one confiftent code , adopted a uniform plan of government , and made every one of his fubjects , without regard ...
... directed his attention to the internal regulation of his kingdom . He di- gefted the difcordant laws of the heptarchy into one confiftent code , adopted a uniform plan of government , and made every one of his fubjects , without regard ...
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... directed with ardour and fuccefs to the exami- nation of those rooted prejudices , which had been long received without fufficient reafon . The strug- D 2 gles gles of contending factions gave birth to the exertions of [ 35 ] CHAPTER II ...
... directed with ardour and fuccefs to the exami- nation of those rooted prejudices , which had been long received without fufficient reafon . The strug- D 2 gles gles of contending factions gave birth to the exertions of [ 35 ] CHAPTER II ...
Strana 37
... directed to the promotion of the good of the community , have ever been ulti- mately crowned with fuccefs . In a period the moft difaftrous in the modern part of our hiftory , viz . the ufurpation of Cromwell , the rights of pro- perty ...
... directed to the promotion of the good of the community , have ever been ulti- mately crowned with fuccefs . In a period the moft difaftrous in the modern part of our hiftory , viz . the ufurpation of Cromwell , the rights of pro- perty ...
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... directed to one point . Defcartes and the Abbé Saas treated the story told of Archimedes as a fiction . Buffon afterwards proved the probability of it , by his own experiments . At the diftance of one hundred and forty feet , by means ...
... directed to one point . Defcartes and the Abbé Saas treated the story told of Archimedes as a fiction . Buffon afterwards proved the probability of it , by his own experiments . At the diftance of one hundred and forty feet , by means ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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?