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 oldal |
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... SPARTA the moft eminent States . The Religion —Arts — Manners , and Conquests of the Greeks . glorious age of Greece . Characters of illuftrious Perfons—— MILTIADES -PAUSANIAS CIMON ARISTIDES . The fufferings of Patriots and ...
... SPARTA the moft eminent States . The Religion —Arts — Manners , and Conquests of the Greeks . glorious age of Greece . Characters of illuftrious Perfons—— MILTIADES -PAUSANIAS CIMON ARISTIDES . The fufferings of Patriots and ...
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... Sparta It is unneceffary to enlarge upon the conftitu tion of Sparta , previous to the time of LYCURGUS , n Jortin , Differtation VI . p . 245 . any any farther than to obferve , that there were two 314 THE HISTORY OF GREECE .
... Sparta It is unneceffary to enlarge upon the conftitu tion of Sparta , previous to the time of LYCURGUS , n Jortin , Differtation VI . p . 245 . any any farther than to obferve , that there were two 314 THE HISTORY OF GREECE .
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... Sparta were required to share the coarseft viands with their people , and to fet examples of the most rigid temperance . To produce a hardy and vigorous race of men , he ordered the women not to be confined to the fe- dentary ...
... Sparta were required to share the coarseft viands with their people , and to fet examples of the most rigid temperance . To produce a hardy and vigorous race of men , he ordered the women not to be confined to the fe- dentary ...
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... the will of their lawgiver ; and , not to adduce other examples , the monument erected in the ftraits of Thermopyla , to record the glorious glorious fall of Leonidas , king of Sparta , and THE HISTORY OF GREECE . 317.
... the will of their lawgiver ; and , not to adduce other examples , the monument erected in the ftraits of Thermopyla , to record the glorious glorious fall of Leonidas , king of Sparta , and THE HISTORY OF GREECE . 317.
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... Sparta , and his three hundred brave affociates , expreffed in an in- fcription characteristic of the genius and spirit of the nation , that they maintained their poft to the laft extremity , in obedience to the orders of their country ...
... Sparta , and his three hundred brave affociates , expreffed in an in- fcription characteristic of the genius and spirit of the nation , that they maintained their poft to the laft extremity , in obedience to the orders of their country ...
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Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1806 |
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540. oldal - ... 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.
48. oldal - 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...
109. oldal - 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...
204. oldal - ... 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.
30. oldal - 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.
276. oldal - 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.
197. oldal - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
523. oldal - 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.
497. oldal - 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.
52. oldal - 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.