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, Bind 1T. and J. Swords, 1803 - 510 sider |
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... preceding age , and to deduce from the prominent features of that period such moral and religious reflections as might be suited to the occasion . A discourse , formed on this plan , was accordingly delivered . Some who heard it were ...
... preceding age , and to deduce from the prominent features of that period such moral and religious reflections as might be suited to the occasion . A discourse , formed on this plan , was accordingly delivered . Some who heard it were ...
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... preceding , is a task which can appear easy only to ignorance and inexperience . And in pro- portion as the number of minds to be contemplated increases , or the length of the time in question is extended , the difficulties of the ...
... preceding , is a task which can appear easy only to ignorance and inexperience . And in pro- portion as the number of minds to be contemplated increases , or the length of the time in question is extended , the difficulties of the ...
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... preceding ; and that many things which super- ficial readers consider as new , were long since fami- liarly known , and as well practised as at the pre- sent day . In works of genius , imagination , and taste , there seems no good ...
... preceding ; and that many things which super- ficial readers consider as new , were long since fami- liarly known , and as well practised as at the pre- sent day . In works of genius , imagination , and taste , there seems no good ...
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... preceding ; yet several important disco- veries , within that time , have been announced . The inventions of the Electrophorus , and the Con- denser by professor VOLTA , and of the Doubler of electricity , by the Rev. Mr. BENNET , of ...
... preceding ; yet several important disco- veries , within that time , have been announced . The inventions of the Electrophorus , and the Con- denser by professor VOLTA , and of the Doubler of electricity , by the Rev. Mr. BENNET , of ...
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... preceding theorists , that to each large acknowledgments are due from the friends of human improvement . Nor ought the still later inquiries of our countrymen , Mr. WARING , on the same subject , to be forgotten . His memoir on the ...
... preceding theorists , that to each large acknowledgments are due from the friends of human improvement . Nor ought the still later inquiries of our countrymen , Mr. WARING , on the same subject , to be forgotten . His memoir on the ...
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Side 392 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Side 98 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Side 406 - The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet beyond those of any other ; that they may be swelled and softened at pleasure by stronger or weaker pressures of the finger, and continued to any length ; and that the instrument, being once well tuned, never again wants tuning.
Side 337 - 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 instant under our View.
Side xii - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Side 392 - Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste — in grace — in facility — in happy invention — and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are most engaged, a variety...
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Side 392 - ... masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appeared not to be raised upon...