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 SchoolsP. Byrne, 1812 |
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... expression , although these beauties seem rather to rise naturally out of the subject , than to result from the labour of composition , or any choice or arrangement of words . One circumstance there is , in which the New Testament rises ...
... expression , although these beauties seem rather to rise naturally out of the subject , than to result from the labour of composition , or any choice or arrangement of words . One circumstance there is , in which the New Testament rises ...
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... expression , in which the oracles of the heathens were conveyed . The history of Christ , as related by the Evangelists , may be considered as an enlarged and finished copy of the Prophecies , and the Prophecies themselves as the ...
... expression , in which the oracles of the heathens were conveyed . The history of Christ , as related by the Evangelists , may be considered as an enlarged and finished copy of the Prophecies , and the Prophecies themselves as the ...
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... expression . Whoever examines the discourses of our Lord with care , will find in them a certain character which discriminates them from the lessons of all other moralists . His manner at once original and striking , clear and convinc ...
... expression . Whoever examines the discourses of our Lord with care , will find in them a certain character which discriminates them from the lessons of all other moralists . His manner at once original and striking , clear and convinc ...
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... expressions of their au- thors ; without some acquaintance with the Roman laws , many forms of expression in the Orations of Cicero are un- intelligible ; and many descriptions in the Old and New Testament are obscure , unless they are ...
... expressions of their au- thors ; without some acquaintance with the Roman laws , many forms of expression in the Orations of Cicero are un- intelligible ; and many descriptions in the Old and New Testament are obscure , unless they are ...
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... expression of ideas . The pictures of the Mexicans , and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians , were without doubt very in- genious devices , and mark the various efforts which human ingenuity can make towards expressing what passes in ...
... expression of ideas . The pictures of the Mexicans , and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians , were without doubt very in- genious devices , and mark the various efforts which human ingenuity can make towards expressing what passes in ...
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Página 189 - 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.
Página 180 - 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 172 - 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 127 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Página 180 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Página 121 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 74 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 173 - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature, and if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
Página 140 - 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...
Página 250 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.