The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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... Clothing Of Government and Laws Of the Mechanical Powers Trade and Commerce The Art of Navigation Geography and Astronomy Of Morals and Religion Grammar Logic Rhetoric Of Vegetable Nature Of Animated Nature Chemistry Page 1 3 6 • 15 22 ...
... Clothing Of Government and Laws Of the Mechanical Powers Trade and Commerce The Art of Navigation Geography and Astronomy Of Morals and Religion Grammar Logic Rhetoric Of Vegetable Nature Of Animated Nature Chemistry Page 1 3 6 • 15 22 ...
Pàgina 1
... clothing , building , re- storing health , preserving social order , maintain- ing national independence , and rendering the pro- duce of all climates subservient to the wants of our own . 4. Ornamental KNOWLEDGE relates to subjects of ...
... clothing , building , re- storing health , preserving social order , maintain- ing national independence , and rendering the pro- duce of all climates subservient to the wants of our own . 4. Ornamental KNOWLEDGE relates to subjects of ...
Pàgina 5
... clothing of savage nations has reference solely to the inclemency of the weather : and con- sists generally of the skins of animals , or of the natural products of vegetables , prepared by the most ingenious processes . 19. A precarious ...
... clothing of savage nations has reference solely to the inclemency of the weather : and con- sists generally of the skins of animals , or of the natural products of vegetables , prepared by the most ingenious processes . 19. A precarious ...
Pàgina 8
... clothing of savage nations has reference solely to the inclemency of the weather : and con- sists generally of the skins of animals , or of the natural products of vegetables , prepared by the most ingenious processes . 19. A precarious ...
... clothing of savage nations has reference solely to the inclemency of the weather : and con- sists generally of the skins of animals , or of the natural products of vegetables , prepared by the most ingenious processes . 19. A precarious ...
Pàgina 28
... clothing is not alike ne- cessary ; between the tropics it is little required , except for ornament : but in the temperate and frigid zones , man could scarcely subsist without some covering. 28 ART OF CLOTHING . The Art of Clothing.
... clothing is not alike ne- cessary ; between the tropics it is little required , except for ornament : but in the temperate and frigid zones , man could scarcely subsist without some covering. 28 ART OF CLOTHING . The Art of Clothing.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Pàgina 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Pàgina 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Pàgina 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Pàgina 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Pàgina 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Pàgina 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Pàgina 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Pàgina 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.