The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge ...A. Phelps, 1826 - 312 Seiten |
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... Islands ; the Greenlanders ; the natives of Hudson's Bay ; and some of the Siberian nations ; of whom , very curious particulars will be found in books of voyages and travels , and in Goldsmith's popular system of Geography.t 9. Till ...
... Islands ; the Greenlanders ; the natives of Hudson's Bay ; and some of the Siberian nations ; of whom , very curious particulars will be found in books of voyages and travels , and in Goldsmith's popular system of Geography.t 9. Till ...
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... Islands . 10. The Romans introduced among the Britons , all the arts and knowledge which they had themselves received from the Greeks ; and laid the foundation of that social state , in which we find ourselves in En- gland , after the ...
... Islands . 10. The Romans introduced among the Britons , all the arts and knowledge which they had themselves received from the Greeks ; and laid the foundation of that social state , in which we find ourselves in En- gland , after the ...
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... islands of the South Seas to the West Indies ; and all the rare spices , na- tives of the East - Indies , are now cultivated in the West - Indies . * In the present edition , the long paragraphs have been pur- posely broken , for the ...
... islands of the South Seas to the West Indies ; and all the rare spices , na- tives of the East - Indies , are now cultivated in the West - Indies . * In the present edition , the long paragraphs have been pur- posely broken , for the ...
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... islands are celebrat- ed for their coal - mines ; many countries being obliged to depend on wood ; which is often scarce and dear . Obs . - Coals are , in all probability , the remains of submerg- ed forests , brought to their present ...
... islands are celebrat- ed for their coal - mines ; many countries being obliged to depend on wood ; which is often scarce and dear . Obs . - Coals are , in all probability , the remains of submerg- ed forests , brought to their present ...
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... islands of the South Seas , the natives , when first discov- ered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud or sods . Obs . The cottages of many of the poor , are ...
... islands of the South Seas , the natives , when first discov- ered , had learnt to elevate the roofs on poles , and to fill in the sides of their houses with boughs or rushes , mud or sods . Obs . The cottages of many of the poor , are ...
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Seite 90 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Seite 108 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Seite 38 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Seite 175 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 164 - To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another?
Seite 35 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seite 39 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed ; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliaments...
Seite 98 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits away : Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Seite 152 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...
Seite 241 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.