The Modern Preceptor Or a General Course of Education: Containing Introductory Treatises on Language, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Algebra, Geometry, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation, Drawing, Painting, &c., Agriculture, Geology, Moral Philosophy : for the Use of Schools, Band 1Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... represent his work as in general an imitation of a valuable original , but at the same time to warn his readers , that the various treatises introduced have been altered in a way to include the numerous improvements which , in a lapse ...
... represent his work as in general an imitation of a valuable original , but at the same time to warn his readers , that the various treatises introduced have been altered in a way to include the numerous improvements which , in a lapse ...
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... represent . If , therefore , language is not only necessary for facilitating the mutual intercourse of men , but is even indispensable for enabling us to obtain some knowledge of external nature ; and if the knowledge of language has a ...
... represent . If , therefore , language is not only necessary for facilitating the mutual intercourse of men , but is even indispensable for enabling us to obtain some knowledge of external nature ; and if the knowledge of language has a ...
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... represent , in compa- ring the terms and idioms of different languages , and in ob- serving the laws of their analogy and construction ; while the moral faculties are at the same time improved by attend- ing to the characters described ...
... represent , in compa- ring the terms and idioms of different languages , and in ob- serving the laws of their analogy and construction ; while the moral faculties are at the same time improved by attend- ing to the characters described ...
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... represent by words the instruments and operations of art , the flights of fancy , the deductions of reason , and the results of obser- vation and experience : hence may be traced the progress of poetry , history , and philosophy . Thus ...
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... represent the succession of thoughts ; neither are its operations sufficiently rapid or direct : so that such a mode of representation is very ill adapted to the activity and variety of our ideas . The great excellence of letters as ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 82 - 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...
Seite 134 - God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Seite 158 - Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, "and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, 'Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Seite 158 - O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Seite 130 - This rule arises from the nature and idiom of our language, and from as plain a principle as any on which it is founded; namely, that a word which has the article before it, and the possessive preposition of after it, must be a noun: and, if a noun, it ought to follow the construction of a noun, and not to have the regimen of a verb. It is the participial termination of this sort of words that is apt to deceive us, and make us treat them as if they were of an amphibious species, partly nouns and...
Seite 155 - And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion...
Seite 132 - How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which is gone astray ? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine which went not astray...
Seite 158 - I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comcth, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Seite 144 - Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that, no action could attend, And but for this, were active to no end...
Seite 157 - Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.