A Familiar Introduction to the Arts Sciences: With Original Introductory Essays Upon the Subject of Each Lesson. For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Containing a General Explication of the Fundamental Principles and Facts of the Sciences, Divided Into Lessons, with Questions Subjoined to Each, for the Examination of Pupils |
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... surface of a terrestrial globe , but not so minutely as they are on different maps ; yet the globe shows the figure of the earth , and the relative situations of the principal places on its surface , more cor- rectly than a map ...
... surface of a terrestrial globe , but not so minutely as they are on different maps ; yet the globe shows the figure of the earth , and the relative situations of the principal places on its surface , more cor- rectly than a map ...
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... surface ; hence it follows that the zenith of any place , or point of the heavens directly over our head , and also the horizon , which is a plane touching the earth's surface at that place , will be continually changing , according as ...
... surface ; hence it follows that the zenith of any place , or point of the heavens directly over our head , and also the horizon , which is a plane touching the earth's surface at that place , will be continually changing , according as ...
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... surface of the earth is supposed to be covered with water : the remainder , or land , is said to be occupied by a thousand millions of human beings . 4. The land consists of continents , islands , peninsulas , and isthmuses ; and the ...
... surface of the earth is supposed to be covered with water : the remainder , or land , is said to be occupied by a thousand millions of human beings . 4. The land consists of continents , islands , peninsulas , and isthmuses ; and the ...
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... surface is easily observable in the disappearance of distant objects ; for on the sea , when there is no obstruction to the sight , the upper parts of a vessel are first seen , and as the eye is more elevated , each part is sooner ...
... surface is easily observable in the disappearance of distant objects ; for on the sea , when there is no obstruction to the sight , the upper parts of a vessel are first seen , and as the eye is more elevated , each part is sooner ...
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... surface . 6. The natural division of the earth's surface is , as we have seen , into land and water . The lands are more or less elevated above the level of the sea , interspersed with lakes and other collections of water . The Caspian ...
... surface . 6. The natural division of the earth's surface is , as we have seen , into land and water . The lands are more or less elevated above the level of the sea , interspersed with lakes and other collections of water . The Caspian ...
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Page 114 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 364 - 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...
Page 179 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds.
Page 4 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Page 104 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest ! FROM 'HUMAN LIFE.
Page 4 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Page 114 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 276 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 137 - For the principal and proper work of history, being to instruct and enable men, by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards the future...
Page 121 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro