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... APPLIED SCIENCES . 6. VOLS . MIXED . Pneumatics . Optics . Astronomy . APPLIED . I. EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY . II . THE FINE ARTS . Magnetism : -Electro - Magnetism . Electricity , Galvanism . Heat . Light . Chemistry . Sound ...
... APPLIED SCIENCES . 6. VOLS . MIXED . Pneumatics . Optics . Astronomy . APPLIED . I. EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY . II . THE FINE ARTS . Magnetism : -Electro - Magnetism . Electricity , Galvanism . Heat . Light . Chemistry . Sound ...
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... Applied Sciences will show that the range of subjects to which attention is directed is wide and comprehensive , and the intrinsic merit of the Essays themselves will prove that no pains have been spared to do justice to these ...
... Applied Sciences will show that the range of subjects to which attention is directed is wide and comprehensive , and the intrinsic merit of the Essays themselves will prove that no pains have been spared to do justice to these ...
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... applied by that acute , ingenious , and accurate people , to the purposes of scientific arrangement ; it is in the Greek language that we must seek for its primary and fundamental signi- fication . Now , in Greek , it literally means a ...
... applied by that acute , ingenious , and accurate people , to the purposes of scientific arrangement ; it is in the Greek language that we must seek for its primary and fundamental signi- fication . Now , in Greek , it literally means a ...
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... applied to the contemplation of nature , is Platonic throughout . It is necessary that we should explain this circumstance at some length , in order to establish by the concurrence of authorities , vulgarly supposed to be contradictory ...
... applied to the contemplation of nature , is Platonic throughout . It is necessary that we should explain this circumstance at some length , in order to establish by the concurrence of authorities , vulgarly supposed to be contradictory ...
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... applied to the investigation of physical laws and phænomena . While Phidias , Apelles , Homer , Demosthenes , Thucydides , and Plato , had , each in his individual sphere , attained almost the summit of conceivable ex- cellence , the ...
... applied to the investigation of physical laws and phænomena . While Phidias , Apelles , Homer , Demosthenes , Thucydides , and Plato , had , each in his individual sphere , attained almost the summit of conceivable ex- cellence , the ...
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Сторінка 260 - to acknowledge our sins before God,|| yet ought we most chiefly so to do,|| when we assemble and meet together—to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, — to .set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and
Сторінка 250 - like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass which to-day is in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you' 1 * Let us here adopt a little of the tasteless manner of modern
Сторінка 128 - spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind; To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, Comes the blind fury, with th* abhorred
Сторінка 267 - here present, to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice to the throne of the heavenly grace, saying after me.' " In the latter part of the first period, * but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart, to the end that we may obtain, forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and
Сторінка 249 - any risk of its meaning being mistaken. The passage cited by Dr. Campbell,f from one of our Lord's discourses, (which are in general of this character,) together with the remarks made upon it, will serve to illustrate what has been just said : "'Consider,' says our Lord, ' the lilies how they grow : they toil not, they spin not ; and yet 1 say
Сторінка 150 - statesman, JACK CADE, thus reproaches his prisoner LORD SAY, " It will be proved to thy face, that thou hast men about thee, that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words, as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Сторінка 255 - Burke, as an instance of Energetic brevity, is in this manner brought in at the close of a more expanded exhibition of the sentiment, as a condensed conclusion of the whole. " Power, of some kind or other, will survive the shock in which manners and opinions perish ; and it will find other
Сторінка 267 - his infinite goodness and mercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God, yet ought we most chiefly so to do, wlien we assemble and meet together. To render thanks for the great benefits
Сторінка 78 - I would have in the heath some thickets made only of sweet-briar, and honeysuckle, and some wild vine amongst; and the ground set with violets ; for these are sweet, and prosper in the shade ; and these to be in the heath here and there, not in
Сторінка 307 - and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the scure and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used : and contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.