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Page 77 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Page 9 - Charlestown, endowed the public school with about eight hundred pounds. Thus endowed, the school was exalted to a college, and assumed the name of its principal benefactor, and Newtown, in compliment to the college, and in memory of the place where many of our fathers received their education, was denominated Cambridge.
Page 12 - Hist, and Gen. Register. the cost of the widow and daughters of Samuel Holden, one of the directors of the Bank of England. It was first used for the College devotions, subsequently for the American courts-martial, and afterwards for anatomical lectures and dissections. It became in 1800 devoted to lecture and recitation rooms for the professors and tutors. Holworthy Hall, which stands at right angles with Stoughton, was...
Page 72 - I am sorry to observe, has with many persons, a doubtful reputation. The time was when it triumphed over other arts; and the time has come, when the usurpation is too much resented.
Page 103 - Ethical writers ; and would lay a foundation for that political knowledge, which is of infinite importance to a free country.
Page 58 - He will fhow when figures .are improperly introduced; and when they are pertinent and ornamental. He will convince you how much a ftyle may be improved, merely by a ttranfpofition of words.
Page 55 - IT is mortifying to obferve, how few, after all the expenfes of a publick education, are matters of their own language. Errours in point of grammar are not uncommon. Still more numerous are the faults arifing from the impertinence and confufion of Rhetorical figures.
Page 71 - French inftructer, who will be pleafed with your affiduity ; — and who will put into your hands fuch works as will aid his own labours ; and make you a proficient in his language.
Page 128 - Casterac res, quze expetuntur, opportune funt fingulas rebus fere fingulis : divitias, ut utare ; opes, ut colare ; honores, ut laudere ; voluptates, ut gaudeas ; valctudo, ut dolore careas, et muneribus fungare coi-poris.
Page 70 - The Studies of St. Pierre will afford you much entertainment. If his philofophy is fometimes times lame, his language is good ; and his remarks, many of them, new and pertinent.