On education [ed. by G. Nicholson]. |
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... excellent Dictionary of Terms , with familiar explana- tions small 8vo . 5s bds . Dr. Milne's Botanical Dic- tionary , is also a valuable work , on which the late Mr. Curtis , it is said , always placed his principal reliance in all ...
... excellent Dictionary of Terms , with familiar explana- tions small 8vo . 5s bds . Dr. Milne's Botanical Dic- tionary , is also a valuable work , on which the late Mr. Curtis , it is said , always placed his principal reliance in all ...
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... on Education . ] · The object of all science and philosophy being utility , we are possessed of an excellent criterion , by which we may judge of all works of this description . After having read a book 326 SCIENCE IN GENERAL .
... on Education . ] · The object of all science and philosophy being utility , we are possessed of an excellent criterion , by which we may judge of all works of this description . After having read a book 326 SCIENCE IN GENERAL .
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... excellent ine- ridian for an astronomer of thirteen . Let us suppose that while I am studying with my pupil the course of the sun and in what manner it appears to return to the east , he should stop me short by ask- ing me , " To what ...
... excellent ine- ridian for an astronomer of thirteen . Let us suppose that while I am studying with my pupil the course of the sun and in what manner it appears to return to the east , he should stop me short by ask- ing me , " To what ...
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... excellent Specimens of this species of writing . Dr. Aikin's England delineated , with Outline Maps of the Counties , 7s bds . Johnson . Dr. Mavor's Historical Account of the most celebrated Voyages , Travels , and Discoveries , from ...
... excellent Specimens of this species of writing . Dr. Aikin's England delineated , with Outline Maps of the Counties , 7s bds . Johnson . Dr. Mavor's Historical Account of the most celebrated Voyages , Travels , and Discoveries , from ...
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... excellent and elaborate com- pilation , but it is tedious , and the style is dry and in- harmonious : it is a book therefore rather for refer- ence than study . The indefatigable Dr. Mavor has produced an abridgment of this work , with ...
... excellent and elaborate com- pilation , but it is tedious , and the style is dry and in- harmonious : it is a book therefore rather for refer- ence than study . The indefatigable Dr. Mavor has produced an abridgment of this work , with ...
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Página 411 - It is thus that the general rules of morality are formed. They are ultimately founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions; because, upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconsistent with a certain general rule. The general rule, on the contrary, is formed, by finding from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumstanced...
Página 35 - When you are awakened by this uneasiness^ and find you cannot easily sleep again, get out of bed, beat up and turn your pillow, shake the bedclothes well, with at least twenty shakes, then throw the bed open and leave it to cool ; in the meanwhile, continuing undrest, walk about your chamber till your skin has had time to discharge its load, which it will do sooner as the air may be dried and colder.
Página 31 - I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes round the pond, to a place which I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond with my kite, which carried me quite over without the least fatigue and with the greatest pleasure imaginable.
Página 31 - I pointed out to him on the other side, I began to cross the pond with, my kite, which carried me quite over without the least fatigue, and with the greatest pleasure imaginable. I was only obliged occasionally to halt a little in my course, and resist its progress, when it appeared that, by following too quick, I lowered the kite too much ; by doing which occasionally I made it rise again — I have never since that time practised this singular mode of swimming, though I think it not impossible...
Página 31 - This discovery I fortunately made by accident, and in the following manner. When I was a boy, I amused myself one day with flying a paper kite ; and approaching the bank of a pond, which was near a mile broad, I tied the string to a stake, and the kite ascended to a very considerable height above the pond, while I was swimming. In a little time, being desirous of amusing myself with my kite, and enjoying at the same time the pleasure of swimming, I returned ; and, loosing from the...
Página 30 - During the great heats in summer there is no danger in bathing, however warm we may be, in rivers which have been thoroughly warmed by the sun. But to throw one's self into cold spring water, when the body has been heated by exercise in the sun, is an imprudence which may prove fatal. I once knew an instance of four young men, who, having...
Página 369 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 30 - The exercise of swimming is one of the most healthy and agreeable in the world. After having swam for an hour or two in the evening, one sleeps coolly the whole night, even during the most ardent heat of summer. Perhaps, the pores being cleansed, the insensible perspiration increases and occasions this coolness.
Página 1 - I see too plainly custom forms us all ; Our thoughts, our morals, our most fix'd belief Are consequences of our place of birth : Born beyond Ganges I had been a pagan, In France a Christian. I am here a Saracen : 'Tis but instruction, all ! Our parents...
Página 340 - Let htm leave the dynasties of the Egyptian kings, the expeditions of Sesostris, Bacchus, and Jason, and the exploits of Hercules and Theseus, for poets to embellish, or chronologists to arrange. The fabulous accounts of these heroes of antiquity may remind him of the sandy deserts, lofty mountains, and frozen oceans, which are laid down in the maps of the ancient geographers, to conceal their ignorance of remote countries. Let him hasten to firm ground, where he may...