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. 2Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 553 oldal |
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... , and Chemistry , are fufficiently evinced by the works of Boyle , Buffon , Linnæus , Lavoisier , Fourcroy , De Lifle , and Black . In order to preclude objections drawn from the fuppofed vifionary In LORD BACON . 141.
... , and Chemistry , are fufficiently evinced by the works of Boyle , Buffon , Linnæus , Lavoisier , Fourcroy , De Lifle , and Black . In order to preclude objections drawn from the fuppofed vifionary In LORD BACON . 141.
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... Linnæus , the celebrated Profeffor of Upfal , in Sweden , and Prefident of the Academy of Stock- holm , overcame all the difficulties which poverty laid in his way , and raised himself to the highest diftinction , as a moft ingenious ...
... Linnæus , the celebrated Profeffor of Upfal , in Sweden , and Prefident of the Academy of Stock- holm , overcame all the difficulties which poverty laid in his way , and raised himself to the highest diftinction , as a moft ingenious ...
159. oldal
... Linnæus , from certain fimilarities of ftructure , has arranged under the clafs of quadrupeds . Clafs II . Birds . The This clafs Linnæus divides into fix orders . diftinctive characters of the orders are chiefly de- rived from the ...
... Linnæus , from certain fimilarities of ftructure , has arranged under the clafs of quadrupeds . Clafs II . Birds . The This clafs Linnæus divides into fix orders . diftinctive characters of the orders are chiefly de- rived from the ...
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... Linnæus divides this clafs into two orders : 1. Rep tilia Pedata , or reptiles furnished with feet , in- cluding turtles , lizards , frogs , & c . 2. Serpentes Apodes , or reptiles without feet . This order comprehends all the ferpent ...
... Linnæus divides this clafs into two orders : 1. Rep tilia Pedata , or reptiles furnished with feet , in- cluding turtles , lizards , frogs , & c . 2. Serpentes Apodes , or reptiles without feet . This order comprehends all the ferpent ...
161. oldal
... Linnæus divides into fix orders , the principal marks of diftinction are de- rived from peculiar circumftances attending the gills and fins . The first four orders comprehend all thofe fishes which have offeous gills ; and this fact ...
... Linnæus divides into fix orders , the principal marks of diftinction are de- rived from peculiar circumftances attending the gills and fins . The first four orders comprehend all thofe fishes which have offeous gills ; and this fact ...
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407. oldal - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
273. oldal - Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full. harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.
278. oldal - To arms ! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance. On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
63. oldal - And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair...
29. oldal - In a word, as he had all the wickednesses against which damnation is denounced, and for which hell-fire is prepared, so he had some virtues which have caused the memory of some men in all ages to be celebrated ; and he will be looked upon by posterity as a brave bad man.
476. oldal - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
378. oldal - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature, and if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
288. oldal - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
410. oldal - ... impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome ; if he has done this, or any part of it, though...
358. oldal - By opening a new and inexhaustible market to all the commodities of Europe, it gave occasion to new divisions of labour and improvements of art, which in the narrow circle of the ancient commerce could never have taken place, for want of a market to take off the greater part of their produce.