The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, כרך 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 63
עמוד 4
... effect is not confined to the sur face of the sea , for those who have traversed the vast plains of Flanders , Lombardy , & c , must have observed similar : appearances in the gradual discovery of steeples , towers , & c , in proportion ...
... effect is not confined to the sur face of the sea , for those who have traversed the vast plains of Flanders , Lombardy , & c , must have observed similar : appearances in the gradual discovery of steeples , towers , & c , in proportion ...
עמוד 3
... effects can be produced by no other cause than the rounded swelling surface of the water between the objects and the eye , which surface , if we take only a small portion a of it , may , it is true , be considered as being perfectly ...
... effects can be produced by no other cause than the rounded swelling surface of the water between the objects and the eye , which surface , if we take only a small portion a of it , may , it is true , be considered as being perfectly ...
עמוד 4
... effect is not confined to the sur face of the sea , for those who have traversed the vast plains of Flanders , Lombardy , & c , must have observed similar : appearances in the gradual discovery of steeples , towers , & c , in proportion ...
... effect is not confined to the sur face of the sea , for those who have traversed the vast plains of Flanders , Lombardy , & c , must have observed similar : appearances in the gradual discovery of steeples , towers , & c , in proportion ...
עמוד 30
... effect until at last they come to be perfectly at rest : such a motion is observed in a weight fixed at the end of a ... effects produced by throwing a stone into a pond of still water . The water suddenly displaced by the stone rises up ...
... effect until at last they come to be perfectly at rest : such a motion is observed in a weight fixed at the end of a ... effects produced by throwing a stone into a pond of still water . The water suddenly displaced by the stone rises up ...
עמוד 128
... effect . The lakes of Neufchatel and Bienne , at the foot of Mount Jura , are highly beautiful , but less grand and romantic . Mineral productions . - Gold particles have been found in the beds of the rivers , and some silver , copper ...
... effect . The lakes of Neufchatel and Bienne , at the foot of Mount Jura , are highly beautiful , but less grand and romantic . Mineral productions . - Gold particles have been found in the beds of the rivers , and some silver , copper ...
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action affections agreeable America ancient angle appear axis beauty body breadth called Cape centre chief town circle climate coast colours columns connections consequently considerable contains copper course creature Danube degree of longitude discovered distance divided dominical letter dominions duty earth east ecliptic elevation England English miles epact equal equator Europe extending feet France geographic miles globe gulf of Venice happiness height human inhabitants Ireland island isles Italy lakes latitude length light longitude mankind meridian mind minutes moon moral mountains nature northern objects obligation observed painting parallel PARALLEL SAILING passions perpendicular petrifactions plane plane sailing Poland pole portion Portugal principal produced proportion reckoned rising river round Russia sailed Scotland sense ship shores side situated southern Spain square miles substance sun's supposed surface Sweden temper tion tracts various vast virtue whole
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 381 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the Workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the Stems of a clump of Trees...
עמוד 338 - ... intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
עמוד 339 - NOR whilst I recommend studying the art from artists, can I be supposed to mean, that nature is to be neglected: I take this study in aid, and not in exclusion, of the other. Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from. which all excellencies must originally flow.
עמוד 492 - ... from the virtuous character. It is the cement of society, or that pervading spirit which connects its members, inspires its various relations, and maintains the order and subordination of each part to the whole. Without it, society would become a den of thieves and banditti, hating and hated, devouring and devoured, by one another.
עמוד 238 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
עמוד 482 - Let avarice defend it as it will, there is an honest reluctance in humanity against buying and selling, and regarding those of our own species as our wealth and possessions.
עמוד 417 - Senfes of Pleafure invite him to new Purfuits ; he grows fenfible to the Attractions of Beauty, feels a peculiar Sympathy with the Sex, and forms a more tender kind of Attachment than he has yet experienced. This becomes the Cement of a new Moral Relation, and gives a fofter Turn to his Paflions and Behaviour.
עמוד 414 - Destination of Man, or in other words what his Business is, or what Conduct he is obliged to pursue, we must inspect his Constitution, take every Part to pieces, examine their mutual Relations one to the other, and the common Effort or Tendency of the...
עמוד 474 - ... moral connection, the spring of many domestic endearments, has measured out to each pair a particular sphere of action, proportioned to their views, and adapted to their respective capacities.
עמוד 439 - They shew mankind in every attitude and variety of character, and give virtue both its struggles and its triumphs.