Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science : Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in SchoolsP. Byrne, 1812 - Best books |
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... refined and polished their works , which have very high pretensions to occupy a place next to that of the English classics . We are the more desirous of pointing out the defects of Johnson and Gibbon on account of their great reputation ...
... refined and polished their works , which have very high pretensions to occupy a place next to that of the English classics . We are the more desirous of pointing out the defects of Johnson and Gibbon on account of their great reputation ...
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... refined from its original roughness , as- sumed a fuller form , and was marked by more distinct fea - ` tures ; and let him pursue his progress down to the present times . Nor ought he to be deterred from this design by an apprehension ...
... refined from its original roughness , as- sumed a fuller form , and was marked by more distinct fea - ` tures ; and let him pursue his progress down to the present times . Nor ought he to be deterred from this design by an apprehension ...
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... refined critic , and the enlightened moralist , like another Socrates , brought moral philosophy from the schools , arrayed her in the most engaging dress , and called the attention of his countrymen to taste and to virtue , in his ...
... refined critic , and the enlightened moralist , like another Socrates , brought moral philosophy from the schools , arrayed her in the most engaging dress , and called the attention of his countrymen to taste and to virtue , in his ...
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... refined dialogues . His Georgics received the highest polish of dic- tion , and his Epic Muse astonished her hearers by correct- ness of composition , and harmony of song . Whenever VIR- GIL indulges the genuine feelings of nature , and ...
... refined dialogues . His Georgics received the highest polish of dic- tion , and his Epic Muse astonished her hearers by correct- ness of composition , and harmony of song . Whenever VIR- GIL indulges the genuine feelings of nature , and ...
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... refined policy of the Con- clave to oppose the learning of Rome as a barrier against the encroachments of the Greek church ; so that the popularity of the Latin tongue bore no inconsiderable proportion to the extent of the pontifical ...
... refined policy of the Con- clave to oppose the learning of Rome as a barrier against the encroachments of the Greek church ; so that the popularity of the Latin tongue bore no inconsiderable proportion to the extent of the pontifical ...
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Page 189 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 180 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 172 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 127 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 180 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 121 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 74 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 173 - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature, and if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
Page 140 - We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord : we make no distinction between any of them...
Page 250 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.