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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38. oldal
... seem rather to describe the paft as Hifto- rians , than to anticipate the future as Prophets . We know , from the authority of Scripture , that multitudes of Jews , who had diligently studied the Prophecies from their youth , and ...
... seem rather to describe the paft as Hifto- rians , than to anticipate the future as Prophets . We know , from the authority of Scripture , that multitudes of Jews , who had diligently studied the Prophecies from their youth , and ...
123. oldal
... seem to have been conftructed according to fome particular rule . Al- though many of his characters are finely drawn , and many of his descriptions are lively and beauti- ful ; yet his verbofenefs frequently fatigues and perplexes the ...
... seem to have been conftructed according to fome particular rule . Al- though many of his characters are finely drawn , and many of his descriptions are lively and beauti- ful ; yet his verbofenefs frequently fatigues and perplexes the ...
426. oldal
... seems probable that a want of thofe fupplies , which he requested immediately after the battle of Canna , was the true caufe of the decline of his fortune , as he continued to ravage Italy for the courfe of fourteen years after his ftay ...
... seems probable that a want of thofe fupplies , which he requested immediately after the battle of Canna , was the true caufe of the decline of his fortune , as he continued to ravage Italy for the courfe of fourteen years after his ftay ...
561. oldal
... seem as yet to have received no large portion of them . No fmall balance is fufficient to liquidate the ac- count of justice and humanity between them and the invaders of their country . If the few remain- VOL . I. 0 0 ing " ** ing ...
... seem as yet to have received no large portion of them . No fmall balance is fufficient to liquidate the ac- count of justice and humanity between them and the invaders of their country . If the few remain- VOL . I. 0 0 ing " ** ing ...
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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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