The Eclectic Reader: Designed for Schools and AcademiesPerkins & Marvin, 1832 - 324 pages |
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... knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called . It is the science of pure mathematics ; and in the high branches of this science lies the true sublime of human acquisition . If any ...
... knowledge of the properties of natural bodies . This is science , properly and emphatically so called . It is the science of pure mathematics ; and in the high branches of this science lies the true sublime of human acquisition . If any ...
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... knowledge which , from the mensuration of the minutest dust of the balance , proceeds on the rising scale of material bodies , every where weighing , every where measuring , every where detecting and explaining the laws of force and ...
... knowledge which , from the mensuration of the minutest dust of the balance , proceeds on the rising scale of material bodies , every where weighing , every where measuring , every where detecting and explaining the laws of force and ...
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... knowledge , or even of the elements and keys of knowledge , and in this way is made synonymous with Instruction . It is entirely forgotten that any thing more is needed ; and all the eulogies so justly bestowed upon it , all the ...
... knowledge , or even of the elements and keys of knowledge , and in this way is made synonymous with Instruction . It is entirely forgotten that any thing more is needed ; and all the eulogies so justly bestowed upon it , all the ...
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... knowledge of geography in discovering and supplying the wants of his fellow men ; and the pirate and the slave dealer will avail themselves of its aid to guide them to their work of destruction . The same course of instruction , in the ...
... knowledge of geography in discovering and supplying the wants of his fellow men ; and the pirate and the slave dealer will avail themselves of its aid to guide them to their work of destruction . The same course of instruction , in the ...
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... knowledge is the grand panacea for human misery . It is too often imagined , that if the low and degraded portion of society could only be instructed in the elements of science , and the principles of art , vice and misery would be ...
... knowledge is the grand panacea for human misery . It is too often imagined , that if the low and degraded portion of society could only be instructed in the elements of science , and the principles of art , vice and misery would be ...
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Page 257 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union...
Page 175 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 217 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Page 283 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or Job's, pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 146 - Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. Great universal Teacher ! he shall mould Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.
Page 44 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Page 157 - The remotest discoveries of the Chemist, the Botanist, or Mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the Poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us...
Page 269 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 282 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 270 - ... to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature.