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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9. oldal
... particular account of it , we refer to our hiftory of modern Europe . With the Norman language , which was adopted in the courts of justice , were introduced the Nor- man laws . The antient trial by jury was fuper- feded by the ...
... particular account of it , we refer to our hiftory of modern Europe . With the Norman language , which was adopted in the courts of justice , were introduced the Nor- man laws . The antient trial by jury was fuper- feded by the ...
17. oldal
... particular facts . In a tone of bold and just complaint the two Houses of Parliament called upon the weak and unfortunate Edward the fecond to banish Gaveston , his infinuating but licentious fa- vourite , from his court . This was the ...
... particular facts . In a tone of bold and just complaint the two Houses of Parliament called upon the weak and unfortunate Edward the fecond to banish Gaveston , his infinuating but licentious fa- vourite , from his court . This was the ...
49. oldal
... particular circumftances and neceffities of the times , are evident proofs of this energetic and be- neficial power . Have we not , therefore , I may confidently afk , abundant reafon to glory in the name , and the pri- vileges of ...
... particular circumftances and neceffities of the times , are evident proofs of this energetic and be- neficial power . Have we not , therefore , I may confidently afk , abundant reafon to glory in the name , and the pri- vileges of ...
56. oldal
... it complete , in all its technical forms , and particular branches , are referred to the concife treatife of Aldrich , and the more perfpicuous work of Wallis . fuch fuch as thinking , doubting , hoping , fearing , 1 56 LOGIC .
... it complete , in all its technical forms , and particular branches , are referred to the concife treatife of Aldrich , and the more perfpicuous work of Wallis . fuch fuch as thinking , doubting , hoping , fearing , 1 56 LOGIC .
58. oldal
... particular fubject , or are united together by the mind when it enlarges its conceptions . Thefe are called complex ideas , fuch as a triangle , a fquare , & c . and are of two kinds ; firft , fuch as are derived from external objects ...
... particular fubject , or are united together by the mind when it enlarges its conceptions . Thefe are called complex ideas , fuch as a triangle , a fquare , & c . and are of two kinds ; firft , fuch as are derived from external objects ...
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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.