A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part First; in Two Volumes: Containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature During that Period, Količina 2

Sprednja platnica
T. and J. Swords, no. 160 Pearl-street., 1803 - 510 strani
 

Izbrane strani

Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse

Pogosti izrazi in povedi

Priljubljeni odlomki

Stran 478 - be • applied and given, once every second year, as a premium to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made known to the public in any part of the continent of America, or in any of the American islands, during the preceding two years, on Heat or on Light.
Stran 103 - with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow,
Stran 347 - of society only within their own limits; " But now the great map of mankind is unrolled " at once, and there is no state or gradation of " barbarism, and no mode of refinement, which " we have not at the same moment under our
Stran 32 - found in this writer more original thinking and observation upon the. several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to say, than in all others put together. His talent for illustration is
Stran 77 - yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could
Stran 154 - much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Stran 346 - called the Greeks children in Antiquities, we may " well call them children; and so we may call all " those nations which were able to trace the pro" gress of society only within their own limits; " But now the great map of mankind is unrolled " at once, and there is no state or gradation of
Stran 160 - man of a very tender heart; yet I know, from indubitable authority, that his mother, who kept a school, having run in debt, on account of an extravagant daughter, would have rotted in jail if the parents of her scholars had not raised a subscription for her. Her son had too much sentiment to have any feeling. A dead
Stran 371 - made known to the public in any part of the Continent of America, or in any of the American islands, during the preceding two years, on

Bibliografski podatki