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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Էջ vi
... those who indulge in it for all other kinds of reading , but event- ually injures the health . I have been told , fays Mr. Clarkson , by a physician of the first eminence , that mufic and novels have done more to produce the fickly ...
... those who indulge in it for all other kinds of reading , but event- ually injures the health . I have been told , fays Mr. Clarkson , by a physician of the first eminence , that mufic and novels have done more to produce the fickly ...
Էջ vii
... those seasons of relax- ation to the acquiring of a fpecies of knowledge , which , however neceffary and ornamental , the multiplicity of ordinary business renders unattain- able at other times . It is hoped , that the follow- ing ...
... those seasons of relax- ation to the acquiring of a fpecies of knowledge , which , however neceffary and ornamental , the multiplicity of ordinary business renders unattain- able at other times . It is hoped , that the follow- ing ...
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... arms ; in a word , either to conquer , or to die on the fpot . - And fometimes those who were flain were brought home upon their fhields . Chastity . American American Revolution , what decifive effects do we frequently perceive X PREFACE .
... arms ; in a word , either to conquer , or to die on the fpot . - And fometimes those who were flain were brought home upon their fhields . Chastity . American American Revolution , what decifive effects do we frequently perceive X PREFACE .
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... those for whom it is defigned - Young Ladies . ” Monthly Mirror for Sept. 1805 . " In a judicious manner this Author has here , as in his former productions , contrived to blend amusement with inftruction . The Problems are more ...
... those for whom it is defigned - Young Ladies . ” Monthly Mirror for Sept. 1805 . " In a judicious manner this Author has here , as in his former productions , contrived to blend amusement with inftruction . The Problems are more ...
Էջ xxv
... those days , men had ideas of very high numbers , and computed them likewife in the fame manner that we do ; namely , by tens . The directions alfo given to Noah , concerning the dimenfions of the ark , leave us no room to doubt that he ...
... those days , men had ideas of very high numbers , and computed them likewife in the fame manner that we do ; namely , by tens . The directions alfo given to Noah , concerning the dimenfions of the ark , leave us no room to doubt that he ...
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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.