Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science. Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools, Volumen2Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... thought it necessary to deprive the future kings of England of the right given to every subject of choosing his own religion . The arguments in favour of this restriction were cogent and irresisti- ble 28 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... thought it necessary to deprive the future kings of England of the right given to every subject of choosing his own religion . The arguments in favour of this restriction were cogent and irresisti- ble 28 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... thought it a duty incumbent upon them to embrace this opportunity of giving their due strength , vigour , and authority , to the liberty of the subject . Accordingly , the ascendancy of the law above the will of the king was fully ...
... thought it a duty incumbent upon them to embrace this opportunity of giving their due strength , vigour , and authority , to the liberty of the subject . Accordingly , the ascendancy of the law above the will of the king was fully ...
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... thoughts succeed each other , and it instructs us in the relation which subsists between our ideas , and the terms in which we express them . It distinguishes their dif- ferent kinds , and points out their properties ; discovers the ...
... thoughts succeed each other , and it instructs us in the relation which subsists between our ideas , and the terms in which we express them . It distinguishes their dif- ferent kinds , and points out their properties ; discovers the ...
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... we attend carefully to our thoughts , we shall observe two fountains or sources of knowledge , from which the understanding is supplied with all its , ideas , or materials of thinking . - These are sensation and re- LOGIC .
... we attend carefully to our thoughts , we shall observe two fountains or sources of knowledge , from which the understanding is supplied with all its , ideas , or materials of thinking . - These are sensation and re- LOGIC .
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... thoughts will give us a clear and distinct view of the nature of the mind , and the first steps it takes in the path of knowledge . From these simple beginnings all our discoveries derive their origin ; for the mind thus stored with its ...
... thoughts will give us a clear and distinct view of the nature of the mind , and the first steps it takes in the path of knowledge . From these simple beginnings all our discoveries derive their origin ; for the mind thus stored with its ...
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Página 261 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 249 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 71 - These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Página 170 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 261 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
Página 171 - How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
Página 273 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 95 - All sheep and oxen ; yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea ; and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Página 36 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great, Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by, Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Página 252 - ... of all men where they pass, and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent...