The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge

Sir Richard Phillips

Edward & Richard Parker, 1817 - 316 Seiten

Inhalt

• Introductory Particulars Page: 3
• Metallurgy: 22
• The Art of Clothing: 28
• Of Government and Laws: 35
• Of the Mechanical Powers: 50
• Trude and Commerce: 60
• The Art of Navigation: 70
• Geography and Astronomy: 76
• Of Morals and Religion: 132
• Grammar: 138
• Logic: 145
• Of Vegetable Nature: 153
• Of Animated Nature: 166
• Chemistry: 197
• Electricity and Galvanism: 214
• Magnetism: 223
• Of Physics or the General Properties of Matter: 272

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 116 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.

Seite 265 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.

Seite 180 - To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another?

Seite 41 - That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliament ought to be held frequently.

Seite 104 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits away : Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.

Seite 167 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...

Seite 40 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.

Seite 193 - Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives and what denies ? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass ! What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme!

Seite 42 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge; Ausgabe 41806 von Early American imprints
• Autor/in: Sir Richard Phillips
• Verlag: Edward & Richard Parker, 1817
• Original von: University of Michigan
• Digitalisiert: 19. Mai 2007
• Länge: 316 Seiten