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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45. oldal
... authority as to its origin , and , with the most falutary effect as to their conduct . The fyftem bears the marks of its own internal evidence as coming from God , becaufe it is in every refpect confiftent with his wifdom and good- nefs ...
... authority as to its origin , and , with the most falutary effect as to their conduct . The fyftem bears the marks of its own internal evidence as coming from God , becaufe it is in every refpect confiftent with his wifdom and good- nefs ...
56. oldal
... authority of the great , the interefts of the priests , and the paffions and prejudices of the bulk of man- kind , were all engaged in open hoftility against the preachers of the new religion , and feemed for ever likely to exclude the ...
... authority of the great , the interefts of the priests , and the paffions and prejudices of the bulk of man- kind , were all engaged in open hoftility against the preachers of the new religion , and feemed for ever likely to exclude the ...
60. oldal
... authority is very pow- erful , whether avowed or concealed . It undoubt- edly gives a bias to the mind , which is more com- monly felt than acknowledged ; and it has con- fiderable influence in determining the judgment in moft of the ...
... authority is very pow- erful , whether avowed or concealed . It undoubt- edly gives a bias to the mind , which is more com- monly felt than acknowledged ; and it has con- fiderable influence in determining the judgment in moft of the ...
62. oldal
... authority of fuch infidious writers , as Voltaire and Gibbon , we enter our ferious , and we think our equitable proteft ; we exhort every one to beware of their fophiftry , and to guard against their delufive arts . They have violated ...
... authority of fuch infidious writers , as Voltaire and Gibbon , we enter our ferious , and we think our equitable proteft ; we exhort every one to beware of their fophiftry , and to guard against their delufive arts . They have violated ...
69. oldal
... authority to anfwer thefe queftions in the affirmative . He has ftated with great candour the progrefs of his conviction of the truth of Chriftianity ; and makes his acknowledg- ments in its favour in a manner , which fhews the ftrength ...
... authority to anfwer thefe queftions in the affirmative . He has ftated with great candour the progrefs of his conviction of the truth of Chriftianity ; and makes his acknowledg- ments in its favour in a manner , which fhews the ftrength ...
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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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540. oldal - ... of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
48. oldal - I here give you then} to dispose of. £The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him...
109. oldal - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
204. oldal - ... as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
30. oldal - Let her see him in his most retired privacies; let her follow him to the Mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
276. oldal - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
197. oldal - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
523. oldal - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
497. oldal - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
52. oldal - When therefore the obligations of morality are taught, let the fanctions of chriftianity never be forgotten ; by which it will be fhewn, that they give ftrength and luftre to each other ; religion will appear to be the voice of reafon, and morality the will of GOD.