The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... east to west : this opinion was , however , combated by other learned men on the continent ; but the repeated mea- surements of degrees on various and distant parts of the earth's surface , performed with the greatest care , and by ...
... east to west : this opinion was , however , combated by other learned men on the continent ; but the repeated mea- surements of degrees on various and distant parts of the earth's surface , performed with the greatest care , and by ...
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... east to west than from north to south ; for the temperate climates allow- ed them to penetrate much farther in the directions of the rising and setting sun , than towards the north , where eterna , snows precluded all access , and to ...
... east to west than from north to south ; for the temperate climates allow- ed them to penetrate much farther in the directions of the rising and setting sun , than towards the north , where eterna , snows precluded all access , and to ...
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... east and west , the one semicircle will indicate indicate the longitude east , and the other the longitude 10 THE MODERN PRECEPTOR .
... east and west , the one semicircle will indicate indicate the longitude east , and the other the longitude 10 THE MODERN PRECEPTOR .
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John Dougall. indicate the longitude east , and the other the longitude west from London . The circle just described as passing through the poles of the earth , and over London , is termed the meridian of that place . This name is ...
John Dougall. indicate the longitude east , and the other the longitude west from London . The circle just described as passing through the poles of the earth , and over London , is termed the meridian of that place . This name is ...
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... east from London . Again , if we wished to ascertain the longitude of King- ston in Jamaica , we should find that the meridian of that town could cut the equator in a point 77 ° , 0 ' , 28 " , to the westward of the intersection of the ...
... east from London . Again , if we wished to ascertain the longitude of King- ston in Jamaica , we should find that the meridian of that town could cut the equator in a point 77 ° , 0 ' , 28 " , to the westward of the intersection of the ...
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Seite 381 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the Workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the Stems of a clump of Trees...
Seite 338 - ... intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Seite 339 - NOR whilst I recommend studying the art from artists, can I be supposed to mean, that nature is to be neglected: I take this study in aid, and not in exclusion, of the other. Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from. which all excellencies must originally flow.
Seite 492 - ... from the virtuous character. It is the cement of society, or that pervading spirit which connects its members, inspires its various relations, and maintains the order and subordination of each part to the whole. Without it, society would become a den of thieves and banditti, hating and hated, devouring and devoured, by one another.
Seite 238 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Seite 482 - Let avarice defend it as it will, there is an honest reluctance in humanity against buying and selling, and regarding those of our own species as our wealth and possessions.
Seite 417 - Senfes of Pleafure invite him to new Purfuits ; he grows fenfible to the Attractions of Beauty, feels a peculiar Sympathy with the Sex, and forms a more tender kind of Attachment than he has yet experienced. This becomes the Cement of a new Moral Relation, and gives a fofter Turn to his Paflions and Behaviour.
Seite 414 - Destination of Man, or in other words what his Business is, or what Conduct he is obliged to pursue, we must inspect his Constitution, take every Part to pieces, examine their mutual Relations one to the other, and the common Effort or Tendency of the...
Seite 474 - ... moral connection, the spring of many domestic endearments, has measured out to each pair a particular sphere of action, proportioned to their views, and adapted to their respective capacities.
Seite 439 - They shew mankind in every attitude and variety of character, and give virtue both its struggles and its triumphs.