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. 2Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 553 oldal |
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37. oldal
... distinguished his reign by making the Judges independent of the Royal will , as they are enabled to hold their fituations for life . His patronage of the arts has been displayed in founding the Royal Academy of Painting : and the ...
... distinguished his reign by making the Judges independent of the Royal will , as they are enabled to hold their fituations for life . His patronage of the arts has been displayed in founding the Royal Academy of Painting : and the ...
220. oldal
... distinguished , are a brilliancy which pervades every part of them , called the metallic luftre ; opacity , fufibility , a fpecific gravity fuperior to that of any other bodies ; a capacity of hardness , elafticity , malleability , and ...
... distinguished , are a brilliancy which pervades every part of them , called the metallic luftre ; opacity , fufibility , a fpecific gravity fuperior to that of any other bodies ; a capacity of hardness , elafticity , malleability , and ...
256. oldal
... to afford fubjects for its decifions . It extends its in- fluence to drefs , furniture , and equipage ; but pre- fides , as in its most distinguished and eminent pro- vinces , vinces , over poetry , eloquence , painting , mufic 256 TASTE .
... to afford fubjects for its decifions . It extends its in- fluence to drefs , furniture , and equipage ; but pre- fides , as in its most distinguished and eminent pro- vinces , vinces , over poetry , eloquence , painting , mufic 256 TASTE .
265. oldal
... distinguished by the admiration of the most improved part of mankind , from their firft appear- ance to the prefent times . It is therefore with good reafon Longinus has made the concurrent applaufe of perfons of different ages ...
... distinguished by the admiration of the most improved part of mankind , from their firft appear- ance to the prefent times . It is therefore with good reafon Longinus has made the concurrent applaufe of perfons of different ages ...
268. oldal
... distinguished ; and their own works are an example and an illuftration of their rules . They knew the difficulty that at- tends every attempt to reach the fummit of excel- lence ; and therefore , in the diftribution of their cenfure and ...
... distinguished ; and their own works are an example and an illuftration of their rules . They knew the difficulty that at- tends every attempt to reach the fummit of excel- lence ; and therefore , in the diftribution of their cenfure and ...
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