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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137. oldal
... taste of mankind will be likely fo far to degenerate , as to fuffer works of intrinfic merit ever to fink into oblivion ; on the contrary , we are inclined to cherish the pleafing expectation , that the best productions of our writers ...
... taste of mankind will be likely fo far to degenerate , as to fuffer works of intrinfic merit ever to fink into oblivion ; on the contrary , we are inclined to cherish the pleafing expectation , that the best productions of our writers ...
152. oldal
... taste ; -if we obferve his good fenfe , the harmony of his numbers , and the versatility of his genius ; it will furely be admitted that he pof- feffed the most ample powers to inftruct and to de- light mankind . Perhaps there is no ...
... taste ; -if we obferve his good fenfe , the harmony of his numbers , and the versatility of his genius ; it will furely be admitted that he pof- feffed the most ample powers to inftruct and to de- light mankind . Perhaps there is no ...
164. oldal
... taste . To store his memory with choice phrafes , culled from the beft claffics , is not fufficient : for this would only make his style a kind of patch - work ; he muft ftudy them , not fo much for their particular words as their ...
... taste . To store his memory with choice phrafes , culled from the beft claffics , is not fufficient : for this would only make his style a kind of patch - work ; he muft ftudy them , not fo much for their particular words as their ...
167. oldal
... taste , improvement , and pleasure from the perufal of its incomparable writers . The Eaft was the fruitful fource of the literature , as well as of the fcience , and mythology of the Greeks . Letters were communicated by Cadmus and his ...
... taste , improvement , and pleasure from the perufal of its incomparable writers . The Eaft was the fruitful fource of the literature , as well as of the fcience , and mythology of the Greeks . Letters were communicated by Cadmus and his ...
170. oldal
... taste . Even the inferior claffes of citizens decided not only upon the fentiments de- livered by the public fpeakers , but criticised the purity of their language , and the harmony of their periods . So exquifite was their judgment ...
... taste . Even the inferior claffes of citizens decided not only upon the fentiments de- livered by the public fpeakers , but criticised the purity of their language , and the harmony of their periods . So exquifite was their judgment ...
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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.