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, Bind 1Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... Aristotle . Artists : Zeuxis , Parrhasius , Phi- dias , Alcamanes . P. 257-266 . CHAP . VI . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . The causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian war . Character of Pericles . The decline of the Athenian power and ...
... Aristotle . Artists : Zeuxis , Parrhasius , Phi- dias , Alcamanes . P. 257-266 . CHAP . VI . THE SUBJECT CONTINUED . The causes and consequences of the Peloponnesian war . Character of Pericles . The decline of the Athenian power and ...
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... Aristotle , exerted the powers of their minds , rather to display their ingenuity , than to satisfy the in- quiries of mankind , as to the nature , the principles , and the end of moral obligation . The powerful influence of example ...
... Aristotle , exerted the powers of their minds , rather to display their ingenuity , than to satisfy the in- quiries of mankind , as to the nature , the principles , and the end of moral obligation . The powerful influence of example ...
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... Aristotle , and the Offices of Cicero , the writings of Puffendorf and Grotius , of Whitby and Hutchinson , when compared with the short rules , illus- trated by the most pleasing similies , and animated by the most striking examples ...
... Aristotle , and the Offices of Cicero , the writings of Puffendorf and Grotius , of Whitby and Hutchinson , when compared with the short rules , illus- trated by the most pleasing similies , and animated by the most striking examples ...
Side 137
... Aristotle , and the Orations of Demosthe- nes . The Athenians were celebrated for the greatest deli- cacy of taste . Even the inferior classes of citizens de- cided not only upon the sentiments delivered by the public speakers , but ...
... Aristotle , and the Orations of Demosthe- nes . The Athenians were celebrated for the greatest deli- cacy of taste . Even the inferior classes of citizens de- cided not only upon the sentiments delivered by the public speakers , but ...
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... Aristotle was concise , and vigorous ; Plato was diffuse and poetical ; Xeno- phon was simple and elegant . The comedies of Aris- tophanes and Menander , however unlike in their charac- ters and sentiments , were both improved by the ...
... Aristotle was concise , and vigorous ; Plato was diffuse and poetical ; Xeno- phon was simple and elegant . The comedies of Aris- tophanes and Menander , however unlike in their charac- ters and sentiments , were both improved by the ...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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Side 38 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Side 91 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Side 318 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Side 109 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 23 - Go to your natural religion : lay before her Mahomet and his disciples arrayed in armour and in blood, riding in triumph over the spoils of thousands and tens of thousands, who fell by his victorious sword : shew her the cities which...
Side 222 - and attentively read these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this " Volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, ' more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and * finer strains both of Poetry and Eloquence, than can be' collected from * all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed.
Side 117 - Dryden saw very early that closeness best preserved an author's sense, and that freedom best exhibited his spirit ; he therefore will deserve the highest praise, who can give a representation at once faithful and pleasing, who can convey the same thoughts with the same graces, and who, when he translates changes nothing but the language.
Side 371 - Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Side 209 - We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord : we make no distinction between any of them...
Side 91 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...