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, Volume 2Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... taste , and feel ; but they want the faculty , which is granted us , of combining these sensations , and from thence draw- ing universal conclusions . When we subject the human body to the knife of the anatomist , in order to find in ...
... taste , and feel ; but they want the faculty , which is granted us , of combining these sensations , and from thence draw- ing universal conclusions . When we subject the human body to the knife of the anatomist , in order to find in ...
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... taste , appear as various as their forms . The soporific milk of the poppy , the acrid but equally milky juice of the spunge , the acid of the sorrel , the saccharine sap of the sycamore and maple , and the resin of the tribe of pines ...
... taste , appear as various as their forms . The soporific milk of the poppy , the acrid but equally milky juice of the spunge , the acid of the sorrel , the saccharine sap of the sycamore and maple , and the resin of the tribe of pines ...
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... taste by an exten- sive survey of the vegetable beauties of the creation .. Exclusive of the well known gardens of Windsor , Richmond , Kew , and Nuneham , there is scarcely a seat of any private gentleman , which does not present the ...
... taste by an exten- sive survey of the vegetable beauties of the creation .. Exclusive of the well known gardens of Windsor , Richmond , Kew , and Nuneham , there is scarcely a seat of any private gentleman , which does not present the ...
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... taste , and native majesty . He remarks some of her productions dis- figured by cultivation in gardens , where amid all the varieties of the apple and the pear , however distin- guished by their colour , size , and taste , he observes ...
... taste , and native majesty . He remarks some of her productions dis- figured by cultivation in gardens , where amid all the varieties of the apple and the pear , however distin- guished by their colour , size , and taste , he observes ...
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... TASTE . THE abuse of words is a very frequent and just subject of complaint among those , who endeavour to communicate knowledge , and rectify misconception . There are some , which are used in a manner so ex- tremely vague and ...
... TASTE . THE abuse of words is a very frequent and just subject of complaint among those , who endeavour to communicate knowledge , and rectify misconception . There are some , which are used in a manner so ex- tremely vague and ...
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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...