The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Band 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 Seiten |
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... Motions of the Moon ib . Eclipses 225 Tides , and Table of , at different places 229 Zodiac 232 Seasons , Day and Night 236 Comets 240 • Fixed Stars 242 1 Milky - way Precession of Equinoxes 244 246 CHAP . ! } 1 THE 8.11-67 MODERN ...
... Motions of the Moon ib . Eclipses 225 Tides , and Table of , at different places 229 Zodiac 232 Seasons , Day and Night 236 Comets 240 • Fixed Stars 242 1 Milky - way Precession of Equinoxes 244 246 CHAP . ! } 1 THE 8.11-67 MODERN ...
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... Motions of the Moon 222 ib . 225 Eclipses Tides , and Table of , at different places 229 232 Zodiac Seasons , Day and Night 236 240 Comets 242 Fixed Stars 244 Milky - way Precession of Equinoxes 246 CHAP . Pag CHAP . VIII . OF ...
... Motions of the Moon 222 ib . 225 Eclipses Tides , and Table of , at different places 229 232 Zodiac Seasons , Day and Night 236 240 Comets 242 Fixed Stars 244 Milky - way Precession of Equinoxes 246 CHAP . Pag CHAP . VIII . OF ...
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... motions to which , it is subjected , Sir Isaac Newton proved , that the shortest axis must be that which passes ... motion from east to west , whilst we on the earth are per- fectly fixed and motionless : but when our views of the ...
... motions to which , it is subjected , Sir Isaac Newton proved , that the shortest axis must be that which passes ... motion from east to west , whilst we on the earth are per- fectly fixed and motionless : but when our views of the ...
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... motion of the globe of the earth , turning round upon itself , the same appearances of the heavens are produced with re- spect to us , as if they were carried round the earth , with a motion rapid in proportion to the respective ...
... motion of the globe of the earth , turning round upon itself , the same appearances of the heavens are produced with re- spect to us , as if they were carried round the earth , with a motion rapid in proportion to the respective ...
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... motion , by which it revolves round the sun , in that portion of time which we call a year . The path or figure described by the earth , in this annual motion round the sun , approaches nearly to a circle , but is in fact an ellipse ...
... motion , by which it revolves round the sun , in that portion of time which we call a year . The path or figure described by the earth , in this annual motion round the sun , approaches nearly to a circle , but is in fact an ellipse ...
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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.