Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science. Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 1Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... light from every quarter which my reading would afford . My references will show the sources from which I have de- rived my principal information ; but it would be al- most an endless , and perhaps a very ostentatious task , to ...
... light from every quarter which my reading would afford . My references will show the sources from which I have de- rived my principal information ; but it would be al- most an endless , and perhaps a very ostentatious task , to ...
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... light of general information and useful truth ; I shall have the satisfaction to reflect that my time has not been sacrificed to a frivolous purpose by thus endeavouring , in conformity with the occupations of the most valuable portion ...
... light of general information and useful truth ; I shall have the satisfaction to reflect that my time has not been sacrificed to a frivolous purpose by thus endeavouring , in conformity with the occupations of the most valuable portion ...
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... lights of history . Coins , medals , and laws , furnish it with strong auxi- liary evidences . P. 171-196 . CHAP . II . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . Comparison between ancient and modern historians . Sketch of a complete writer of history ...
... lights of history . Coins , medals , and laws , furnish it with strong auxi- liary evidences . P. 171-196 . CHAP . II . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . Comparison between ancient and modern historians . Sketch of a complete writer of history ...
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... light and gay con- versation . And , in order to be qualified for the intro- duction of such subjects , it seems requisite to unite to the study of the learned languages other attainments , which have a reference to the sciences , the ...
... light and gay con- versation . And , in order to be qualified for the intro- duction of such subjects , it seems requisite to unite to the study of the learned languages other attainments , which have a reference to the sciences , the ...
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... light , so are they highly ef- ficacious and beneficial when combined with profes- sional knowledge . To some professions indeed they are essentially necessary , to all they are ornamental . They afford illustrations which render ...
... light , so are they highly ef- ficacious and beneficial when combined with profes- sional knowledge . To some professions indeed they are essentially necessary , to all they are ornamental . They afford illustrations which render ...
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Page 38 - 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, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 91 - And 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 impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 318 - The blue-eyed myriads from the 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 heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 109 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 23 - Go to your natural religion : lay before her Mahomet and his disciples arrayed in armour and in blood, riding in triumph over the spoils of thousands and tens of thousands, who fell by his victorious sword : shew her the cities which...
Page 222 - 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.
Page 117 - Dryden saw very early that closeness best preserved an author's sense, and that freedom best exhibited his spirit ; he therefore will deserve the highest praise, who can give a representation at once faithful and pleasing, who can convey the same thoughts with the same graces, and who, when he translates changes nothing but the language.
Page 371 - Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 209 - We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord : we make no distinction between any of them...
Page 91 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...