The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Τόμος 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 σελίδες |
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... passing through the centre of the earth , from west to east , is about 34 English miles longer than that which passes from north to south . Upon taking a medium of all the different dimensions of the earth , it has been found that if it ...
... passing through the centre of the earth , from west to east , is about 34 English miles longer than that which passes from north to south . Upon taking a medium of all the different dimensions of the earth , it has been found that if it ...
Σελίδα 9
... passing through both poles , and crossing the equator at right angles , in two points diametrically opposite the one to the other , this circle , which is also to consist of 360 degrees , will be cut into 4 equal portions of 90 degrees ...
... passing through both poles , and crossing the equator at right angles , in two points diametrically opposite the one to the other , this circle , which is also to consist of 360 degrees , will be cut into 4 equal portions of 90 degrees ...
Σελίδα 10
... passing over London , it will intersect the equator at right angles , and consequently at the shortest distance from London , in a point correspond- ing to the position of that city , from which point if longi- tude be reckoned , it may ...
... passing over London , it will intersect the equator at right angles , and consequently at the shortest distance from London , in a point correspond- ing to the position of that city , from which point if longi- tude be reckoned , it may ...
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... passing through the poles of the earth , and over London , is termed the meridian of that place . This name is borrowed from a Latin term signifying what relates to noon or mid - day ; because when in the daily revolution of the earth ...
... passing through the poles of the earth , and over London , is termed the meridian of that place . This name is borrowed from a Latin term signifying what relates to noon or mid - day ; because when in the daily revolution of the earth ...
Σελίδα 13
... passing through London , a great circle or meridian should be drawn through the poles , and passing over Constantinople , which would intersect the equator in a point 29 ° , 0 ′ , 52 " , to the eastward of that where the first meridian ...
... passing through London , a great circle or meridian should be drawn through the poles , and passing over Constantinople , which would intersect the equator in a point 29 ° , 0 ′ , 52 " , to the eastward of that where the first meridian ...
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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.