The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated Modern Authors, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Refine the Taste of Youth: Particularly Designed and Arranged for the Use of Schoolscompiler and sold at his bookstore... W. Weeks, printer, 1811 - 216 Seiten |
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... sense of sight , is in all cases produced by the action of the rays of light upon the fine expansion of the optic nerve , in the eye , called the retina . Q. Pray what do you call light ? A. That quality of certain bodies , whereby E ...
... sense of sight , is in all cases produced by the action of the rays of light upon the fine expansion of the optic nerve , in the eye , called the retina . Q. Pray what do you call light ? A. That quality of certain bodies , whereby E ...
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... sense of the passage , and al ways made alike , but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone secins to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of perfons , who have had proper op . portunities of learning ...
... sense of the passage , and al ways made alike , but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone secins to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . Among the number of perfons , who have had proper op . portunities of learning ...
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... sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest ...
... sense and attention . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest ...
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... sense , and at *** allow the reader to draw his wreath delicate adjustment of such tallser . and difficult artistes : agement of the create not to oblige as to charte have so intimate 1 conector nounced with the same typen , Many I ...
... sense , and at *** allow the reader to draw his wreath delicate adjustment of such tallser . and difficult artistes : agement of the create not to oblige as to charte have so intimate 1 conector nounced with the same typen , Many I ...
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... sense . An em- phatical pause is generally made , after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this ...
... sense . An em- phatical pause is generally made , after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes , before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
America Antiparos appears attention Bayle beauty born buried at Westminster Caius Verres called clouds crowned Damocles Damon daughter death desire died divided duke duke of Anjou earth Edward III Edward the Elder emphasis empire England English evils father fortune friends give Grammar Greek happiness Hazael heart heavens Henry Henry VII honor hope human inflection inhabitants islands isthmus of Darien king kingdom labor land language LESSON light lives Lord mankind manner married miles mind misery moon mountains nature Ortogrul ourselves passions pause persons phatical planets pleasure prince principal pronunciation proper Pythias queen reader reading reason religion rest rich Richard II rising Roman round SECTION sense sentence shines Sicily sometimes soul sound South America Spain spaniola spirit succeeded syllable temper thee things thou tion tones utter verse virtue voice wisdom words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 149 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Seite 146 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Seite 149 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Seite 124 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Seite 149 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection! We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical...
Seite 135 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Seite 159 - I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Seite 115 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Seite 149 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Seite 129 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.