Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science. Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volume 2Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 - Books and reading |
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... labours , and we not only share the inheritance of their property , but derive reputation from their noble actions . A Russian or a Turk may have a strong predilection for his country , and entertain a profound veneration for his ...
... labours , and we not only share the inheritance of their property , but derive reputation from their noble actions . A Russian or a Turk may have a strong predilection for his country , and entertain a profound veneration for his ...
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... labour can be too unremitting , what vigilance too active , what public spirit too exalted and ardent , to preserve unsullied and unimpaired a Constitu- TION , which is the brightest ornament , the most glo- rious privilege , and the ...
... labour can be too unremitting , what vigilance too active , what public spirit too exalted and ardent , to preserve unsullied and unimpaired a Constitu- TION , which is the brightest ornament , the most glo- rious privilege , and the ...
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... labours , he determined the true figure of the earth ; and the travels of the French academicians to measure the unequal length of a degree at the equator and the poles , served only to verify , by actual obser vation , the problem ...
... labours , he determined the true figure of the earth ; and the travels of the French academicians to measure the unequal length of a degree at the equator and the poles , served only to verify , by actual obser vation , the problem ...
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... would be the most hideous and formidable of his enemies . The common insects , which now only ap- pear to discolour the ears of corn , would then frus- trate the labours of agriculture , and make the most 102 THE WORKS OF NATURE .
... would be the most hideous and formidable of his enemies . The common insects , which now only ap- pear to discolour the ears of corn , would then frus- trate the labours of agriculture , and make the most 102 THE WORKS OF NATURE .
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... labours of agriculture , and make the most destructive ravages in our fields and harvests . In places most remote from the abode of man , and in every element , are animals to be found . The wa- ters contain innumerable inhabitants ...
... labours of agriculture , and make the most destructive ravages in our fields and harvests . In places most remote from the abode of man , and in every element , are animals to be found . The wa- ters contain innumerable inhabitants ...
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Page 261 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 249 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 71 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Page 170 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 261 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
Page 171 - 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 joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
Page 273 - 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.
Page 95 - All sheep and oxen ; yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Page 36 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Page 252 - ... of all men where they pass, and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent...