The American Library of Useful Knowledge, 第 1 卷Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 - 320 頁 |
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... genius , at least in the perfection and variety of its fruits . There is doubtless much in such a review to gratify our pride , national , professional and personal . But its value in this respect , if we stop here , is but of doubtful ...
... genius , at least in the perfection and variety of its fruits . There is doubtless much in such a review to gratify our pride , national , professional and personal . But its value in this respect , if we stop here , is but of doubtful ...
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... genius , but employment to whole classes in the subordinate arts ? They not only create a demand for labour ; but make that very labour a means of subsistence to many , who must otherwise be idle and indolent , or by pressing upon other ...
... genius , but employment to whole classes in the subordinate arts ? They not only create a demand for labour ; but make that very labour a means of subsistence to many , who must otherwise be idle and indolent , or by pressing upon other ...
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... genius , which were not devoted to literature . But scholars of all sorts , by general consent , looked with indifference or disdain upon the common arts of life , and felt it to be a reproach to mingle in the business of the artizan ...
... genius , which were not devoted to literature . But scholars of all sorts , by general consent , looked with indifference or disdain upon the common arts of life , and felt it to be a reproach to mingle in the business of the artizan ...
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... genius , sinks him not behind the fore- most of those , who strive for the first literary distinctions . This fortunate change in the publie opinion , which has made it not only profitable , but honourable to pursue the mechanical arts ...
... genius , sinks him not behind the fore- most of those , who strive for the first literary distinctions . This fortunate change in the publie opinion , which has made it not only profitable , but honourable to pursue the mechanical arts ...
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... genius of our age in simultaneous , and elegant inventions . It is true in the general progress of society , that art generally precedes science . The savage first constructs his hut , prepares his food , fashions his weapons of defence ...
... genius of our age in simultaneous , and elegant inventions . It is true in the general progress of society , that art generally precedes science . The savage first constructs his hut , prepares his food , fashions his weapons of defence ...
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第 231 頁 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
第 9 頁 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
第 22 頁 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
第 231 頁 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.
第 304 頁 - Led by this indication he tries the effect of iodine on that complaint, and the result establishes the extraordinary fact that this singular substance, taken as. a medicine, acts with the utmost promptitude and energy on goitre, dissipating the largest and most inveterate in a short time, and acting (of course, like all medicines, even ihe most approved, with occasional failures,) as a specific, or natural antagonist, against that odious deformity.
第 139 頁 - ... about it. If you see another instrument or animal, in some respects like, but differing in other particulars, you find it pleasing to compare them together, and to note in what they agree, and in what they differ. Now, all this kind of gratification is of a pure and disinterested nature, and has no reference to any of the common purposes of life ; yet it is a pleasure — an enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it ; you do not gratify your palate, or any other bodily appetite ; and...
第 51 頁 - Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas ; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship, " Against the wind, against the tide, Still steadies, with an upright keel.
第 11 頁 - I elevated myself upon a platform, and addressed the assembly. I stated that I knew not what was the matter; but, if they would be quiet and indulge me for a half-hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time.
第 319 頁 - ... why should we despair that the reason which has enabled us to subdue all nature to our purposes, should (if permitted and assisted by the providence of God) achieve a far more difficult conquest ; and ultimately find some means of enabling the collective wisdom of mankind to bear down those obstacles which individual short-sightedness, selfishness, and passion, oppose to all improvements, and by which the highest hopes are continually blighted, and the fairest prospects marred.
第 139 頁 - ... enjoyment. You are nothing the richer for it; you do not gratify your palate or any other bodily appetite; and yet it is so pleasing, that you would give something out of your pocket to obtain it, and would forego some bodily enjoyment for its sake. The pleasure derived from Science is exactly of the like nature, or, rather, it is the very same.