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... Hour Circles VII . Of Longitude and Latitude on the Heavenly Globe , and of the Nodes and Eclipses of the Planets VIII . Of Altitude , Azimuth , and various risings and settings of the Sun and Stars - - 219 222 223 227 228 231 234 - 237 ...
... Hour Circles VII . Of Longitude and Latitude on the Heavenly Globe , and of the Nodes and Eclipses of the Planets VIII . Of Altitude , Azimuth , and various risings and settings of the Sun and Stars - - 219 222 223 227 228 231 234 - 237 ...
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... hour of life calls for some regular exercise of our judgment as to times and things persons and actions ; without a prudent and discreet determina- tion in matters before us , we shall be plunged into perpetual errors in our conduct ...
... hour of life calls for some regular exercise of our judgment as to times and things persons and actions ; without a prudent and discreet determina- tion in matters before us , we shall be plunged into perpetual errors in our conduct ...
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... hour , than you could obtain by a month of your own solitary labour . Think with yourself , with how much ease the God of spirits ean cast into our mind some useful suggestion , and give a happy turn to your own thoughts , or the ...
... hour , than you could obtain by a month of your own solitary labour . Think with yourself , with how much ease the God of spirits ean cast into our mind some useful suggestion , and give a happy turn to your own thoughts , or the ...
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... hours amongst chil- dren , talk with them according to their capacity : mark the young buddings of infant reason ; observe the different motions and distinct workings of the animal and the mind , as far as you can discern them ; take ...
... hours amongst chil- dren , talk with them according to their capacity : mark the young buddings of infant reason ; observe the different motions and distinct workings of the animal and the mind , as far as you can discern them ; take ...
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... hours of a visit from running all to waste ; and by this means , even among scholars , they will seldom find occasion for that too just and bitter reflection , I have lost my time in the company of the learned . By such practice as this ...
... hours of a visit from running all to waste ; and by this means , even among scholars , they will seldom find occasion for that too just and bitter reflection , I have lost my time in the company of the learned . By such practice as this ...
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Page 7 - DEEPLY possess your mind with the vast importance of a good judgment, and the rich and inestimable advantage of right reasoning. Review the instances of your own misconduct in life; think seriously with yourselves how many follies and sorrows you had escaped, and how much guilt and misery you...
Page 143 - Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Page 106 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 94 - If the mind apply itself at first to easier subjects and things near akin to what is already known, and then advance to the more remote and knotty parts of knowledge by slow degrees, it will be able in this manner to cope with great difficulties, and prevail over them with amazing and happy success.
Page 65 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame unto him.
Page 21 - ... maturity. 4. It is another advantage of reading, that we may review what we have read ; we may consult the page again and again, and meditate on it at successive seasons, in our serenest and retired hours, having the book always at hand...
Page 31 - General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.