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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xix. oldal
... morals . Notices of thofe whofe difcoveries and researches form memorable eras in the hiftory of Science .-- PYTHA- GORAS - ARCHIMEDES - FRIAR BACON - COPERNICUS GALILEO - KEPLER - CASSINILORD BACON BOYLE . The most able interpreter of ...
... morals . Notices of thofe whofe difcoveries and researches form memorable eras in the hiftory of Science .-- PYTHA- GORAS - ARCHIMEDES - FRIAR BACON - COPERNICUS GALILEO - KEPLER - CASSINILORD BACON BOYLE . The most able interpreter of ...
14. oldal
... morality . They vitiate the taste of their readers , destroy their relish for useful books , and make the facts of hiftory , and even the defcriptions of poetry , appear dull and infipid . It were well if their bad effects terminated at ...
... morality . They vitiate the taste of their readers , destroy their relish for useful books , and make the facts of hiftory , and even the defcriptions of poetry , appear dull and infipid . It were well if their bad effects terminated at ...
17. oldal
... moral and religious truth . That the conduct of the inftructors of children , in thus taking advantage of the curiosity and the docility of the infant mind , is not the refult of fuperftition and credulity , but of good fenfe , and a ...
... moral and religious truth . That the conduct of the inftructors of children , in thus taking advantage of the curiosity and the docility of the infant mind , is not the refult of fuperftition and credulity , but of good fenfe , and a ...
18. oldal
... moral in all cafes . And as it is infifted that its evidence is conclufive , upon thorough confideration of it ; fo it offers itself to us with manifeft obvious appear- ances of having fomething more than human in it , and therefore in ...
... moral in all cafes . And as it is infifted that its evidence is conclufive , upon thorough confideration of it ; fo it offers itself to us with manifeft obvious appear- ances of having fomething more than human in it , and therefore in ...
31. oldal
... moral character . He was equally free from the ambition of an impoftor , and the infatuation of an enthufiaft ; for when the people fought to place the crown of Ifrael on his head , he conveyed himself away by a miracle . Whenever he ...
... moral character . He was equally free from the ambition of an impoftor , and the infatuation of an enthufiaft ; for when the people fought to place the crown of Ifrael on his head , he conveyed himself away by a miracle . Whenever he ...
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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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