A Familiar Introduction to the Arts Sciences: With Original Introductory Essays Upon the Subject of Each Lesson. For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Containing a General Explication of the Fundamental Principles and Facts of the Sciences, Divided Into Lessons, with Questions Subjoined to Each, for the Examination of PupilsHenry G. Bohn, 1852 - 402 páginas |
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... A noun may be known by taking an article before it , as a book ; an owl ; the moon : or by its making sense of itself , as virtue , poverty , wealth . 6. Nouns are either proper or common : —proper nouns 10 GRAMMAR .
... A noun may be known by taking an article before it , as a book ; an owl ; the moon : or by its making sense of itself , as virtue , poverty , wealth . 6. Nouns are either proper or common : —proper nouns 10 GRAMMAR .
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... Moon , among which the Nile takes its rise . 5. Abyssinia is divided into several provinces , of which the principal are Tigri , Grojam , and Dembea . Gondar is the capital of the empire . 6. Egypt , a kind of valley , through which the ...
... Moon , among which the Nile takes its rise . 5. Abyssinia is divided into several provinces , of which the principal are Tigri , Grojam , and Dembea . Gondar is the capital of the empire . 6. Egypt , a kind of valley , through which the ...
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... Moon run nearly in the same direction . There is also a considerable eleva- tion between the Nile and the Red Sea . 11. In the New World the neighbourhood of the west- ern coast is in general the most elevated . In North America , the ...
... Moon run nearly in the same direction . There is also a considerable eleva- tion between the Nile and the Red Sea . 11. In the New World the neighbourhood of the west- ern coast is in general the most elevated . In North America , the ...
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... moon , which are either periodical or synodical . 10. The periodical lunar month is computed by the time which elapses between the departure of the moon from any part of her orbit to her return to the same point , which is 27 days , 7 ...
... moon , which are either periodical or synodical . 10. The periodical lunar month is computed by the time which elapses between the departure of the moon from any part of her orbit to her return to the same point , which is 27 days , 7 ...
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... moon in September ; and an ecclesiastical year , which began from the new moon in March . The Persians begin their year in the month answering to June . The Chinese and most of the Indian nations begin it with the first moon in March ...
... moon in September ; and an ecclesiastical year , which began from the new moon in March . The Persians begin their year in the month answering to June . The Chinese and most of the Indian nations begin it with the first moon in March ...
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acid algebra ancient angle animals architecture arithmetic atmosphere body bounded called centre character chief towns circle colour common conic sections consist denominated diameter distinguished divided earth electricity ellipse eloquence equal feet figure fluid geometry Give the example Give the illustration glass Gothic architecture gravity Greeks heat human ideas inches Ionic order Isaac Newton islands Julian period Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind length LESSON THE SECOND letters light magnet means meant measured metals method metonomy miles mind moon motion mountains mythology Nabonassar nature nouns object oxygen perfect philosophical plane principal produced properties proportion proposition quantity QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION rays rivers Romans Russia shews sides sine solid sound specific gravities square stamens subjunctive mood substances supposed surface syllogism things tion triangle trigonometry tropes truth verb weight worship
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Página 114 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Página 364 - See through 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...
Página 179 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Página 4 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Página 104 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest ! FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.
Página 4 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Página 114 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Página 276 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam His praise.
Página 137 - For the principal and proper work of history, being to instruct and enable men, by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards the future...
Página 121 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro