The Modern Preceptor ; Or, a General Course of Education, Τόμος 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 - 580 σελίδες |
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... sides by the sea and the heavens : more attentive observers were , however , long ago persuaded that the earth is a ... side as : seem to touch the surface of the water ; if we stoop the eye slowly down to the ground , we will gradually ...
... sides by the sea and the heavens : more attentive observers were , however , long ago persuaded that the earth is a ... side as : seem to touch the surface of the water ; if we stoop the eye slowly down to the ground , we will gradually ...
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... side of the equator , and from the equator back to the north pole ; and the distance between the poles of the earth , or between any point of the equator , and another diametrically opposite to it , will be a semicircle , or 180 degrees ...
... side of the equator , and from the equator back to the north pole ; and the distance between the poles of the earth , or between any point of the equator , and another diametrically opposite to it , will be a semicircle , or 180 degrees ...
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... side of the equator , and south latitude when the place lies on the south side of the equator . No place can have more than 90 degrees of latitude on either side , because 90 degrees is the whole distance between the equator and the ...
... side of the equator , and south latitude when the place lies on the south side of the equator . No place can have more than 90 degrees of latitude on either side , because 90 degrees is the whole distance between the equator and the ...
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... side of the equator , by subtracting the less quantity from the greater , we obtain 4 ° , 26 ' , 16 " , for the ... sides of the equator , the one in north , and the other in south latitude , it is evident that as the two latitudes are ...
... side of the equator , by subtracting the less quantity from the greater , we obtain 4 ° , 26 ' , 16 " , for the ... sides of the equator , the one in north , and the other in south latitude , it is evident that as the two latitudes are ...
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... , or half the circumference of the equator : when , therefore , two places are situated on the same side of the first meridian , and that the most remote is not not more than 180 ° from it , their difference ON GEOGRAPHY . 18.
... , or half the circumference of the equator : when , therefore , two places are situated on the same side of the first meridian , and that the most remote is not not more than 180 ° from it , their difference ON GEOGRAPHY . 18.
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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.