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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vii. oldal
... action ; their labours are adapted to the peculiar profeffion for which young men are intended , and the curiofity of the public at large is gratified to a degree un- precedented in former times , by the diffufion of various kinds of ...
... action ; their labours are adapted to the peculiar profeffion for which young men are intended , and the curiofity of the public at large is gratified to a degree un- precedented in former times , by the diffufion of various kinds of ...
xiv. oldal
... Action and Delivery . The eloquence of ancient and moden times . DEMOSTHENES the chief example to be recommend- ed to the English Public Speaker . Successfully imitated by the Marquis of Wharton , Lord Chatham , and Lord Chief Juftice ...
... Action and Delivery . The eloquence of ancient and moden times . DEMOSTHENES the chief example to be recommend- ed to the English Public Speaker . Successfully imitated by the Marquis of Wharton , Lord Chatham , and Lord Chief Juftice ...
xxii. oldal
... actions of the Ancients . He views the ancient and modern Specimens of the fine Arts Architecture -- Sculpture - Medals - Pictures - Books . He examines the State of Government - Religion - Commerce- Agriculture , & c . and remarks ...
... actions of the Ancients . He views the ancient and modern Specimens of the fine Arts Architecture -- Sculpture - Medals - Pictures - Books . He examines the State of Government - Religion - Commerce- Agriculture , & c . and remarks ...
8. oldal
... actions marked by the pureft benevolence , his precepts tending im- mediately to the happiness of man , and his promises capable of exciting the moft exalted and moft glorious hopes , are peculiarly calculated to ftrike the imagination ...
... actions marked by the pureft benevolence , his precepts tending im- mediately to the happiness of man , and his promises capable of exciting the moft exalted and moft glorious hopes , are peculiarly calculated to ftrike the imagination ...
14. oldal
... actions ; they tend to excite a ro- mantic fenfibility , pervert the judgment of the young and inexperienced , inflame the paffions , and corrupt the heart . Let it likewife be carefully remarked , that I am under very few obligations ...
... actions ; they tend to excite a ro- mantic fenfibility , pervert the judgment of the young and inexperienced , inflame the paffions , and corrupt the heart . Let it likewife be carefully remarked , that I am under very few obligations ...
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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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