A Compend of History, from the Earliest Times, Τόμοι 1-2Richardson and Lord, 1828 |
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Σελίδα 2
... learning , by securing the copies of maps , charts , and books , to the authors and proprietors of such copies , during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act , entitled , " An Act supplementary to an act , entitled , An Act ...
... learning , by securing the copies of maps , charts , and books , to the authors and proprietors of such copies , during the times therein mentioned ; " and also to an act , entitled , " An Act supplementary to an act , entitled , An Act ...
Σελίδα 3
... learning to read , and may become very generally acquainted with history , merely in a common course of school reading . No species of instruction so easily or so deeply imprints itself on the memory of youth , as that which is clothed ...
... learning to read , and may become very generally acquainted with history , merely in a common course of school reading . No species of instruction so easily or so deeply imprints itself on the memory of youth , as that which is clothed ...
Σελίδα 4
... learning and tal- ents is ever safe - and as far as a writer may hope to benefit his pro- duction , by inscribing it to a name , which must long adorn the temple of science — so far I felicitate myself on this occasion ; And am ...
... learning and tal- ents is ever safe - and as far as a writer may hope to benefit his pro- duction , by inscribing it to a name , which must long adorn the temple of science — so far I felicitate myself on this occasion ; And am ...
Σελίδα 38
... learning and civility , and in intrigues and atrocities , as disgraceful to his throne as injurious to his subjects . It will be found a just remark , that , as most nations have risen by industry and virtue , so they have fallen ( by ...
... learning and civility , and in intrigues and atrocities , as disgraceful to his throne as injurious to his subjects . It will be found a just remark , that , as most nations have risen by industry and virtue , so they have fallen ( by ...
Σελίδα 56
... learning , power and influence , to the supremacy of Greece , an ascendency owing to her commercial enterprise . The short and splendid reign of Cyrus , after the reduc- tion of Babylon , seems to have been fully employed in settling ...
... learning , power and influence , to the supremacy of Greece , an ascendency owing to her commercial enterprise . The short and splendid reign of Cyrus , after the reduc- tion of Babylon , seems to have been fully employed in settling ...
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Σελίδα 208 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Σελίδα 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 81 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Σελίδα 229 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Σελίδα 98 - ... to the noise of a tumultuous assembly, and with pebbles in his mouth that he might correct a defect in his speech...
Σελίδα 121 - ... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People.
Σελίδα 195 - ... parties succeeding one another. Indeed it is surprising that the illustrious examples of those great men should be deserted immediately, and so soon forgotten ; and it can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing that the reins of government fell into the weakest and vilest of hands. When we consider the advantages the first emperors of Rome possessed, it can scarcely be doubted that many of them were the lowest, the most detestable and abandoned villains that ever swayed a sceptre....
Σελίδα 86 - Pass on me what sentence you please, Athenians ; but I can neither repent nor change my conduct. I must not abandon nor suspend a function, which God himself has imposed on me, now he has charged me with the care of instructing my fellow citizens.
Σελίδα 121 - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Σελίδα 197 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe...