Handbook for Readers and Students, Intended as a Help to Individuals, Associations, School Districts and Seminaries of Learning, in the Selection of Works for Reading, Investigation, Or Professional StudyHarper & Brothers, 1843 - Всего страниц: 330 |
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... French 66 66 German 66 66 Italian 66 66 Spanish , & c . . II . Philosophers : 66 Greek 66 Roman 66 Christian 66 Mediæval • f Modern 66 66 English and American 66 " 6 German 66 66 French III . Natural Sciences : Ancient Modern IV ...
... French 66 66 German 66 66 Italian 66 66 Spanish , & c . . II . Philosophers : 66 Greek 66 Roman 66 Christian 66 Mediæval • f Modern 66 66 English and American 66 " 6 German 66 66 French III . Natural Sciences : Ancient Modern IV ...
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... French , of Albany , Resolved , that Messrs . Alonzo Potter , Amos Dean , and Francis Dwight , be requested to see whether arrangements can be made for the publication of such a volume , and be a committee to prepare the same . has felt ...
... French , of Albany , Resolved , that Messrs . Alonzo Potter , Amos Dean , and Francis Dwight , be requested to see whether arrangements can be made for the publication of such a volume , and be a committee to prepare the same . has felt ...
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... French work , in 6 vols . 8vo ; and yet this work , costing , in this country , about $ 16 00 , rather presupposes than communicates information in re- gard to the literary character of works , and the gener- al scope of their contents ...
... French work , in 6 vols . 8vo ; and yet this work , costing , in this country , about $ 16 00 , rather presupposes than communicates information in re- gard to the literary character of works , and the gener- al scope of their contents ...
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... French and German historians , which are a great improvement upon those formerly in use . Parallel columns are assigned to the leading countries of the world , and contemporaneous events happening in these different countries appear ...
... French and German historians , which are a great improvement upon those formerly in use . Parallel columns are assigned to the leading countries of the world , and contemporaneous events happening in these different countries appear ...
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... French National Litera- ture ; Ginguene's Histoire de la Litérature d'Italie ; also Ville- main's Cours , & c . PARTICULAR COUNTRIES . 1. England . Earlier Authors are , Matthew Paris ; Bacon's Life of Henry VII .; Lord Herbert's Life ...
... French National Litera- ture ; Ginguene's Histoire de la Litérature d'Italie ; also Ville- main's Cours , & c . PARTICULAR COUNTRIES . 1. England . Earlier Authors are , Matthew Paris ; Bacon's Life of Henry VII .; Lord Herbert's Life ...
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Стр. 43 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Стр. 279 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Стр. 16 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Стр. 29 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Стр. 42 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Стр. 39 - Government, that learning should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable: we see it is accounted an error to commit a natural body to empiric physicians, which commonly have a few pleasing receipts whereupon they are confident and adventurous...
Стр. 17 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading, without reflection.
Стр. 277 - Dr. Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines : Containing a clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice.
Стр. 199 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Стр. 73 - Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember...