The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful KnowledgeEdward Parker, 1822 - 322 pàgines |
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... say all that his hopes prompt him to ; and leaves his book to speak for itself , and prove its worth , by its actual effects on the rising generation . D. B. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME . Introductory Particulars Of the Simple vi PREFACE .
... say all that his hopes prompt him to ; and leaves his book to speak for itself , and prove its worth , by its actual effects on the rising generation . D. B. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME . Introductory Particulars Of the Simple vi PREFACE .
Pàgina 19
... leaves ; 300,000 of which are only the thickness of an inch . 84. Silver is 11 times heavier than water ; and next to gold in beauty ; such is its ductility , that may be drawn out in wire finer than a hair . it 85. Mercury , or ...
... leaves ; 300,000 of which are only the thickness of an inch . 84. Silver is 11 times heavier than water ; and next to gold in beauty ; such is its ductility , that may be drawn out in wire finer than a hair . it 85. Mercury , or ...
Pàgina 22
... leaves , twigs , and the stems of weeds , & c . and the bottoms of their huts are frequently partly under the ground or the snow , and are thus more effectually clothed during the long continuance of their winter season . In warmer ...
... leaves , twigs , and the stems of weeds , & c . and the bottoms of their huts are frequently partly under the ground or the snow , and are thus more effectually clothed during the long continuance of their winter season . In warmer ...
Pàgina 23
... leaves , twigs , and the stems of weeds , & c . and the bottoms of their huts are frequently partly under the ground or the snow , and are thus more effectually clothed during the long continuance of their winter season . In warmer ...
... leaves , twigs , and the stems of weeds , & c . and the bottoms of their huts are frequently partly under the ground or the snow , and are thus more effectually clothed during the long continuance of their winter season . In warmer ...
Pàgina 29
... leaves of fig - trees , sewn , perhaps , together ; and even at this day , our man- ufactures of clothing are derived , chiefly , from the fibres of the vegetable kingdom . 113. The skins of animals were doubtless the first substantial ...
... leaves of fig - trees , sewn , perhaps , together ; and even at this day , our man- ufactures of clothing are derived , chiefly , from the fibres of the vegetable kingdom . 113. The skins of animals were doubtless the first substantial ...
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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.