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 ; in Two Volumes. 1Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 564 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... defire to sketch fuch a profpect of the best publications , as may be pleafing to every enquirer into ufeful and enter- taining Literature . To lay claim to originality of fubject in fuch a Work as this , in order to recommend it to ...
... defire to sketch fuch a profpect of the best publications , as may be pleafing to every enquirer into ufeful and enter- taining Literature . To lay claim to originality of fubject in fuch a Work as this , in order to recommend it to ...
Pàgina viii
... of its progrefs an ardent defire to extend ufeful inftruction beyond the narrow profeffional fphere in which he moves . If he should excite curiofity , curiofity , or increase attention to any branch of profitable viii PREFACE .
... of its progrefs an ardent defire to extend ufeful inftruction beyond the narrow profeffional fphere in which he moves . If he should excite curiofity , curiofity , or increase attention to any branch of profitable viii PREFACE .
Pàgina 14
... defire to caution them against the infidious arts , the flimfy fophiftry , and the exceffive arrogance of the mo- dern French writers , particularly Voltaire , Rouffeau , D'Alembert , Diderot , Helvetius , and Volney ; and their ...
... defire to caution them against the infidious arts , the flimfy fophiftry , and the exceffive arrogance of the mo- dern French writers , particularly Voltaire , Rouffeau , D'Alembert , Diderot , Helvetius , and Volney ; and their ...
Pàgina 46
... defire of future hap- pinefs , and his dread of future mifery in a world to come . And do we not find , that our holy Religion not only contains the beft precepts of ancient philo- fophy in one regular fyftem , but adds to them others ...
... defire of future hap- pinefs , and his dread of future mifery in a world to come . And do we not find , that our holy Religion not only contains the beft precepts of ancient philo- fophy in one regular fyftem , but adds to them others ...
Pàgina 63
... defire of being well informed : they do not , in the spirit of true philofophy , examine the evidences of Chrif- tianity with the seriousness , which is due to an affair of fuch infinite importance to the present welfare , and future ...
... defire of being well informed : they do not , in the spirit of true philofophy , examine the evidences of Chrif- tianity with the seriousness , which is due to an affair of fuch infinite importance to the present welfare , and future ...
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