The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Τόμος 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 σελίδες |
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... length of a degree on a great circle of such a sphere would be equal to 69,02 English miles . When we observe the sun , the moon , and the stars begin regularly to appear or rise in the east , advance to their great- est elevation , and ...
... length of a degree on a great circle of such a sphere would be equal to 69,02 English miles . When we observe the sun , the moon , and the stars begin regularly to appear or rise in the east , advance to their great- est elevation , and ...
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... length of the earth , while the northing and southing was regarded as its breadth ; hence the distance of any place , east or west from a given station , VOL . II . C was was called , agreeably to the Latin term which we ON GEOGRAPHY . 9.
... length of the earth , while the northing and southing was regarded as its breadth ; hence the distance of any place , east or west from a given station , VOL . II . C was was called , agreeably to the Latin term which we ON GEOGRAPHY . 9.
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... length throughout the whole year . No sensible variation in the degrees of heat and cold , constituting that variety of seasons we now observe , especially in regions removed from the equator , would have been perceived : but from the ...
... length throughout the whole year . No sensible variation in the degrees of heat and cold , constituting that variety of seasons we now observe , especially in regions removed from the equator , would have been perceived : but from the ...
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... length of the day and the night , in different situations on the globe , at the summer solstice , or at the longest day of the year . Supposing the day and the night VOL . II . D to to consist each of twelve hours at the equator , ON ...
... length of the day and the night , in different situations on the globe , at the summer solstice , or at the longest day of the year . Supposing the day and the night VOL . II . D to to consist each of twelve hours at the equator , ON ...
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... length of that at a place before observed , a number of concentric cir- cles was supposed to be described round the poles , through those places , and parallel to the equator , as high up as to the polar circles and the narrow bands ...
... length of that at a place before observed , a number of concentric cir- cles was supposed to be described round the poles , through those places , and parallel to the equator , as high up as to the polar circles and the narrow bands ...
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Σελίδα 381 - For could the Arches be otherwise than pointed when the Workman was to imitate that curve which branches of two opposite trees make by their intersection with one another ? Or could the Columns be otherwise than split into distinct shafts, when they were to represent the Stems of a clump of Trees...
Σελίδα 338 - ... intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused...
Σελίδα 339 - NOR whilst I recommend studying the art from artists, can I be supposed to mean, that nature is to be neglected: I take this study in aid, and not in exclusion, of the other. Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from. which all excellencies must originally flow.
Σελίδα 492 - ... from the virtuous character. It is the cement of society, or that pervading spirit which connects its members, inspires its various relations, and maintains the order and subordination of each part to the whole. Without it, society would become a den of thieves and banditti, hating and hated, devouring and devoured, by one another.
Σελίδα 238 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Σελίδα 482 - Let avarice defend it as it will, there is an honest reluctance in humanity against buying and selling, and regarding those of our own species as our wealth and possessions.
Σελίδα 417 - Senfes of Pleafure invite him to new Purfuits ; he grows fenfible to the Attractions of Beauty, feels a peculiar Sympathy with the Sex, and forms a more tender kind of Attachment than he has yet experienced. This becomes the Cement of a new Moral Relation, and gives a fofter Turn to his Paflions and Behaviour.
Σελίδα 414 - Destination of Man, or in other words what his Business is, or what Conduct he is obliged to pursue, we must inspect his Constitution, take every Part to pieces, examine their mutual Relations one to the other, and the common Effort or Tendency of the...
Σελίδα 474 - ... moral connection, the spring of many domestic endearments, has measured out to each pair a particular sphere of action, proportioned to their views, and adapted to their respective capacities.
Σελίδα 439 - They shew mankind in every attitude and variety of character, and give virtue both its struggles and its triumphs.