Elements of general knowledge: introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science. With lists of the most approved authors; including the best editions of the classics, designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools. By Henry Kett, ... In two volumesMessrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Whitehall; Hanwell and Parker, and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1803 |
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... first brought , in defiance of all justice , to the fcaffold , and James the fecond compelled by the voice of his injured people to abdicate his throne , have given awful leffons to the fovereigns of the world . Here kings and fubjects ...
... first brought , in defiance of all justice , to the fcaffold , and James the fecond compelled by the voice of his injured people to abdicate his throne , have given awful leffons to the fovereigns of the world . Here kings and fubjects ...
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... first offence , and their lands were bequeathed equally to all the fons , without any regard to primogeni- ture . In the Wittena Gemote , or affembly of the Wife Men , confifting of the fuperior Clergy and Noblemen , all business for ...
... first offence , and their lands were bequeathed equally to all the fons , without any regard to primogeni- ture . In the Wittena Gemote , or affembly of the Wife Men , confifting of the fuperior Clergy and Noblemen , all business for ...
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... first called to parliament . There are still preserved in the tower of Lon- don fome writs iffued , during this reign , for the choice of two knights in each fhire , to reprefent their county in parliament ; but this representation was ...
... first called to parliament . There are still preserved in the tower of Lon- don fome writs iffued , during this reign , for the choice of two knights in each fhire , to reprefent their county in parliament ; but this representation was ...
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... FIRST . Strongly ac- tuated by the martial fpirit of his age , he engaged in long and expenfive wars against Wales and Scot- land , in confequence of which his treasury was ex- haufted , and his only refource for regular fupplies was ...
... FIRST . Strongly ac- tuated by the martial fpirit of his age , he engaged in long and expenfive wars against Wales and Scot- land , in confequence of which his treasury was ex- haufted , and his only refource for regular fupplies was ...
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... first were powerful enough to break their promifes . A House compofed of the reprefentatives of the people was the only bulwark of fufficient ftrength to check the torrent of defpotifm : and the importunity of the Commons for more ...
... first were powerful enough to break their promifes . A House compofed of the reprefentatives of the people was the only bulwark of fufficient ftrength to check the torrent of defpotifm : and the importunity of the Commons for more ...
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Seite 396 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Seite 397 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Seite 335 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end: 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.
Seite 319 - 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 the...
Seite 221 - 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.
Seite 42 - 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...
Seite 108 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Seite 52 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Seite 349 - Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd. When fainting nature call'd for aid, And hov'ring death prepar'd the blow, His vig'rous remedy display'd The power of art without the show.
Seite 206 - Both day and night: 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?