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, Том 2Printed at the Press of H. Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston, 1805 |
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... bodies ; as when we assert that snow is white , fire is hot , or steel hard . As intuition is the foundation of all scientific , so is experience the foundation of all natural knowledge . For the latter being wholly con- versant with ...
... bodies ; as when we assert that snow is white , fire is hot , or steel hard . As intuition is the foundation of all scientific , so is experience the foundation of all natural knowledge . For the latter being wholly con- versant with ...
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... bodies ; the latter treat of quantity as subsisting in bodies , and consequently they are intermixed with the consideration of physics , or experimental philosophy . Pure mathematics are Arithmetic , Algebra , Geome- try , and fluxions ...
... bodies ; the latter treat of quantity as subsisting in bodies , and consequently they are intermixed with the consideration of physics , or experimental philosophy . Pure mathematics are Arithmetic , Algebra , Geome- try , and fluxions ...
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... bodies . There are six . simple instruments , which are cailed the mechanical powers ; and by their combination , all machines , how- ever complicated , are constructed . Their names are --- the lever , the wheel and axle , the pulley ...
... bodies . There are six . simple instruments , which are cailed the mechanical powers ; and by their combination , all machines , how- ever complicated , are constructed . Their names are --- the lever , the wheel and axle , the pulley ...
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... bodies . II . Pneumatics relates to the nature and properties of the air of this thin , compressible , dilatable and transparent fluid , few properties are known without the assistance of mechanics and geometry . Its elastic force ...
... bodies . II . Pneumatics relates to the nature and properties of the air of this thin , compressible , dilatable and transparent fluid , few properties are known without the assistance of mechanics and geometry . Its elastic force ...
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... bodies . : V. Of all the sciences , to which geometry imparts the solidity of its principles , and the clearness of its proofs the most beautiful and the most sublime is astronomy . This is perhaps the most exact and most definite part ...
... bodies . : V. Of all the sciences , to which geometry imparts the solidity of its principles , and the clearness of its proofs the most beautiful and the most sublime is astronomy . This is perhaps the most exact and most definite part ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
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