Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science : Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in SchoolsP. Byrne, 1812 - Best books |
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... Latin as to the arrangement of words in com- position . Strictures on those writers who have unnecessarily intro- duced into their works many words of Latin derivation , particularly Sir Thomas Browne and Dr. Johnson . The practice of ...
... Latin as to the arrangement of words in com- position . Strictures on those writers who have unnecessarily intro- duced into their works many words of Latin derivation , particularly Sir Thomas Browne and Dr. Johnson . The practice of ...
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... Latin are inferior to Greek writers . A degeneracy of style remarkable in Tacitus , Suetonius , Pliny , Lucan , Seneca . Many beauties of the classics are lost in translations . The wide extent of the Latin language before and after the ...
... Latin are inferior to Greek writers . A degeneracy of style remarkable in Tacitus , Suetonius , Pliny , Lucan , Seneca . Many beauties of the classics are lost in translations . The wide extent of the Latin language before and after the ...
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... Latin language , into which the Scriptures were translated , was cultivated ; and the precious remains of classical genius escaped the ravages , to which every other species of property was exposed by the ferocity and violence of a ...
... Latin language , into which the Scriptures were translated , was cultivated ; and the precious remains of classical genius escaped the ravages , to which every other species of property was exposed by the ferocity and violence of a ...
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... Latin , that resemble others in Greek , we are not surprised , considering the intimate connexion which subsisted between the two nations , and the evident derivation of the former from the latter . It is natural to suppose that the ...
... Latin , that resemble others in Greek , we are not surprised , considering the intimate connexion which subsisted between the two nations , and the evident derivation of the former from the latter . It is natural to suppose that the ...
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... Latin and Otaheitan , Latin and Turkish , and English and Persian ? I could show the coincidence in many points between Greek and Sanscrit , between the dialect of the Hebudes and the remote language of China : I could perhaps ascertain ...
... Latin and Otaheitan , Latin and Turkish , and English and Persian ? I could show the coincidence in many points between Greek and Sanscrit , between the dialect of the Hebudes and the remote language of China : I could perhaps ascertain ...
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Page 189 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 180 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 172 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 127 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 180 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 121 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 74 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 173 - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature, and if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
Page 140 - We believe in God, and that which hath been sent down unto us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from their Lord : we make no distinction between any of them...
Page 250 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister-arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.