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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xvii. oldal
... flourishing state of Litera- ture and the Arts during the AUGUSTAN AGE - The degene racy of Manners from that period . Its Caufes ; I. LUXURY . H. CORRUPTION . III . NEGLECT OF EDUCATION . IV . THE PREVALENCE OF THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHY ...
... flourishing state of Litera- ture and the Arts during the AUGUSTAN AGE - The degene racy of Manners from that period . Its Caufes ; I. LUXURY . H. CORRUPTION . III . NEGLECT OF EDUCATION . IV . THE PREVALENCE OF THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHY ...
xxi. oldal
... flourished most in the foil of liberty - gradually improved as old errors have been ex- ploded , and new experiments have been tried and adopted . The best method of forming general principles upon this fub- ject . Population is limited ...
... flourished most in the foil of liberty - gradually improved as old errors have been ex- ploded , and new experiments have been tried and adopted . The best method of forming general principles upon this fub- ject . Population is limited ...
55. oldal
... flourished in that age . The Apoftles and their converts were expofed to the taunts of derifion , and the cruelties of perfecution ; and they risked the lofs not only of liberty and character , of friends and relations , but even of ...
... flourished in that age . The Apoftles and their converts were expofed to the taunts of derifion , and the cruelties of perfecution ; and they risked the lofs not only of liberty and character , of friends and relations , but even of ...
96. oldal
... flourished fo early as the four- teenth century , are read with the fashionable au- thors of the prefent times , and fhare in their popu- larity and applaufė . In the fifth century , the Franks , a people of Germany , under the command ...
... flourished fo early as the four- teenth century , are read with the fashionable au- thors of the prefent times , and fhare in their popu- larity and applaufė . In the fifth century , the Franks , a people of Germany , under the command ...
127. oldal
... flourished in the reign of Charles II . His Sermons are matchlefs : his periods are fo full and exuberant , as to give no in- adequate reprefentation of the eloquence of Cicero . He exhaufts every subject which he undertakes to difcufs ...
... flourished in the reign of Charles II . His Sermons are matchlefs : his periods are fo full and exuberant , as to give no in- adequate reprefentation of the eloquence of Cicero . He exhaufts every subject which he undertakes to difcufs ...
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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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