Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science, 第 2 卷Rivington [and others], 1805 |
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... tastes , & c . But we derive all these ideas , great as is their number , solely from external objects . Another source of impressions arises from the attention of the mind to its own perceptions , and considers the various modes , in ...
... tastes , & c . But we derive all these ideas , great as is their number , solely from external objects . Another source of impressions arises from the attention of the mind to its own perceptions , and considers the various modes , in ...
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... taste , and feel ; but they want the faculty , which is granted us , of combining these sensations , and from thence draw- ing universal conclusions . When we subject the human body to the knife of the anatomist , in order to find in ...
... taste , and feel ; but they want the faculty , which is granted us , of combining these sensations , and from thence draw- ing universal conclusions . When we subject the human body to the knife of the anatomist , in order to find in ...
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... taste , appear as various as their forms . The soporific milk of the poppy , the acrid but equally milky juice of the spunge , the acid of the sorrel , the saccharine sap of the sycamore and maple , and the resin of the tribe of pines ...
... taste , appear as various as their forms . The soporific milk of the poppy , the acrid but equally milky juice of the spunge , the acid of the sorrel , the saccharine sap of the sycamore and maple , and the resin of the tribe of pines ...
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... taste by an exten- sive survey of the vegetable beauties of the creation . Exclusive of the well known gardens of Windsor , Richmond , Kew , and Nuneham , there is scarcely a seat of any private gentleman , which does not present the ...
... taste by an exten- sive survey of the vegetable beauties of the creation . Exclusive of the well known gardens of Windsor , Richmond , Kew , and Nuneham , there is scarcely a seat of any private gentleman , which does not present the ...
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... taste , and native majesty . He remarks some of her productions dis- figured by cultivation in gardens , where amid all the varieties of the apple and the pear , however distin- guished by their colour , size , and taste , he observes ...
... taste , and native majesty . He remarks some of her productions dis- figured by cultivation in gardens , where amid all the varieties of the apple and the pear , however distin- guished by their colour , size , and taste , he observes ...
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第 265 頁 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
第 277 頁 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
第 172 頁 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
第 265 頁 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
第 253 頁 - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature ; and if there were any secret excellence among them would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
第 177 頁 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
第 253 頁 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
第 187 頁 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
第 187 頁 - Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide ; Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth, For well I- know wherever ye reside, There harmony, .and peace, and innocence abide.
第 257 頁 - ... deserve the regard and honour of all men where they pass, and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent And perhaps then other nations will be glad to visit us for their breeding, or else to imitate us in their own country.