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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... 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 , and ...
... 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 , and ...
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... marked by the most exact detail of names , perfons , times , and places , that can in any degree throw light upon the fubject , and efta- blish its truth . The hiftory , the manners , and the opinions opinions of the times , as they may ...
... marked by the most exact detail of names , perfons , times , and places , that can in any degree throw light upon the fubject , and efta- blish its truth . The hiftory , the manners , and the opinions opinions of the times , as they may ...
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... marked by qualities the moft extraordinary , and the most tranfcendent . Every account of every other perfonage , whether portrayed by the fancy of the the poet , or defcribed by the accuracy of the 28 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .
... marked by qualities the moft extraordinary , and the most tranfcendent . Every account of every other perfonage , whether portrayed by the fancy of the the poet , or defcribed by the accuracy of the 28 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .
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... marked with a more ftriking and appro- priate reference to a particular train of events , in proportion as the Prophets approached more nearly to the time of the Meffiah . As he was the great object of the general expectation of the ...
... marked with a more ftriking and appro- priate reference to a particular train of events , in proportion as the Prophets approached more nearly to the time of the Meffiah . As he was the great object of the general expectation of the ...
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... marked by peculiar ignorance ; and fo far are they from being distinguished by the light of science , or the cultivation of ufeful knowledge , that they rarely adopt any foreign improvements , and even fmother in its birth the spirit of ...
... marked by peculiar ignorance ; and fo far are they from being distinguished by the light of science , or the cultivation of ufeful knowledge , that they rarely adopt any foreign improvements , and even fmother in its birth the spirit of ...
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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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