Arithmetical Questions on a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information ...author and proprietors, 1811 - 494 էջ |
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... king Stephen , and took him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln , in 1141 . Margaret of Anjou , wife of Henry VI . fignalized herself , by heading her troops , in feveral battles , against the house of York . See Chron , and Biog . Exer ...
... king Stephen , and took him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln , in 1141 . Margaret of Anjou , wife of Henry VI . fignalized herself , by heading her troops , in feveral battles , against the house of York . See Chron , and Biog . Exer ...
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... King Stephen ; the death of Chaucer the poet ; the history of the battle of Agin- court ; Charles Vth's refiguation to his fon Philip ; the death of Calmet ; the death of King George II . and the death of Hogarth ; with the particulars ...
... King Stephen ; the death of Chaucer the poet ; the history of the battle of Agin- court ; Charles Vth's refiguation to his fon Philip ; the death of Calmet ; the death of King George II . and the death of Hogarth ; with the particulars ...
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... king of Babylon , its inftitutor , 746 years B. C. The building of Rome took place 753 years B. C. The Olympics or Olympic games , fo famous among the Greeks , were inftituted in honour of Jupiter . They were holden at the beginning of ...
... king of Babylon , its inftitutor , 746 years B. C. The building of Rome took place 753 years B. C. The Olympics or Olympic games , fo famous among the Greeks , were inftituted in honour of Jupiter . They were holden at the beginning of ...
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... king of Troy , had carried away from the house of Menelaus her husband , king of Sparta . All Greece combined to revenge the caufe of this prince ; and Agamemnon , brother of the injured Menelaus , was chofen general of the confederate ...
... king of Troy , had carried away from the house of Menelaus her husband , king of Sparta . All Greece combined to revenge the caufe of this prince ; and Agamemnon , brother of the injured Menelaus , was chofen general of the confederate ...
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... king of Perfia , whom he had conquered ; obferving , that the moft perfect work of human genius ought to be preferved in a box the most valuable and precious in the world . HOMER , VIRGIL , and MILTON , are confidered as the three ...
... king of Perfia , whom he had conquered ; obferving , that the moft perfect work of human genius ought to be preferved in a box the most valuable and precious in the world . HOMER , VIRGIL , and MILTON , are confidered as the three ...
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Էջ 66 - For these reasons, there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants ; they knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Էջ 130 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Էջ 31 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Էջ 9 - Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, In fair proportion, running from the red To where the violet fades into the sky.
Էջ 350 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Էջ 185 - He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.