The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein the First Principles of Polite Learning are Laid Down in a Way Most Suitable for Trying the Genius, and Advancing the Instruction of Youth. In Twelve Parts. Illustrated with Maps and Useful Cuts, Bind 2R. and J. Dodsley, 1758 |
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... say , between the Ex- tremes . When we look at any Object confiderably diftant from us , if we have a clear View of the interjacent Lands and Houses , we are able to determine pretty nearly of its Re- moteness ; but if without such a ...
... say , between the Ex- tremes . When we look at any Object confiderably diftant from us , if we have a clear View of the interjacent Lands and Houses , we are able to determine pretty nearly of its Re- moteness ; but if without such a ...
Side 51
... say to explain it . If we would really produce the Idea in him , it must be by applying the proper Object to his Senfes , and bringing him within the Influence of a hot Body . When this is done , and Experience has taught him the ...
... say to explain it . If we would really produce the Idea in him , it must be by applying the proper Object to his Senfes , and bringing him within the Influence of a hot Body . When this is done , and Experience has taught him the ...
Side 60
... say the Definitions of the Name are arbitra- ry , we mean not that the Descriptions of Ideas are so too , For every Idea having a peculiar Appearance of its own , by which it is diftinguished from all others , nothing is more evident ...
... say the Definitions of the Name are arbitra- ry , we mean not that the Descriptions of Ideas are so too , For every Idea having a peculiar Appearance of its own , by which it is diftinguished from all others , nothing is more evident ...
Side 63
... saying that it is Substance yellow , very beavy , malleable , fufible , & c . X. FROM what has been faid it appears , that in the Language of Logicians , Definitions of the Thing refpect only Substances , and Beings that have a real ...
... saying that it is Substance yellow , very beavy , malleable , fufible , & c . X. FROM what has been faid it appears , that in the Language of Logicians , Definitions of the Thing refpect only Substances , and Beings that have a real ...
Side 68
... unfolded , but merely the Connection between some Word and Idea afferted , have yet been dignified with the Name of Definitions . Thus in the T the Instance before given , when we say that a 68 Of SIMPLE APPREHENSION . Book I.
... unfolded , but merely the Connection between some Word and Idea afferted , have yet been dignified with the Name of Definitions . Thus in the T the Instance before given , when we say that a 68 Of SIMPLE APPREHENSION . Book I.
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abſolute Affections alfo almoſt alſo anſwer appear arife becauſe beſt Buſineſs Cafe called Cauſe cife Claſs common Conclufion confiderable confidered confifts Conftitution Connection Conſequences Copula Courſe Creature Defire Demonftration diftinct diftinguiſhed Duties eaſy eſpecially eſtabliſhed Exerciſe expreſs faid falſe fame farther ferve feveral fimple Ideas firſt fome Form fuch fufficient Government Happiness Hence human increaſe Induſtry Inſtances Intereſt Iſland itſelf juſt kind Knowledge laft laſt Laws leſs manner means meaſure Mind Moral moſt muſt Name Nature neceffarily neceffary neceſſary Notions Number Objects obſerve Order ourſelves Paffions particular Perceptions Perſon pleaſe Pleaſure Power Predicate preſent Propofitions Purpoſe raiſed Reaſon Reasoning repreſent reſpect reſt Reſult ſame ſay Science ſecond ſeems Senfes Senſe ſerve ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſimple ſmall ſome ſometimes Species ſtand ſtill Subject Subſtance ſuch ſuppoſe Syllogifm Syſtem themſelves theſe Things thoſe tion Truth Underſtanding univerſal uſe vaſt Virtue whole whoſe
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Side 121 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Side 528 - They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with the chains of Habit hanging secretly upon them, till, as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the scents fainter...
Side 122 - I said above, that the faculties of our souls are improved and made useful to us, just after the same manner as our bodies are. Would you have a man write or paint, dance or fence well, or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease?
Side 528 - ... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted.
Side 518 - I saw fruits and herbs and water, and here determined to wait the hand of death, which I hope, when at last it comes, will fall lightly upon me.
Side 553 - ... and doubted about them : for, from the draught of ignorance and error that he had taken at his entrance, he had imagined things that were bad to be good, and things that were good to be bad ; by which means he had lived wretchedly, as indeed all do while they are there. But now that he has obtained, the knowledge of what is really good, he can both live happily himself, and can see how very unhappy the others are.
Side 101 - Angles ; adds by way of Corollary, that all the three Angles of any one Triangle...
Side 105 - This Manner of determining the Relation between any two Ideas, by the Intervention of...
Side 528 - Reason than to disobey her; and who retreated from the heat and tumult of the way, not to the bowers of Intemperance, but to the maze of Indolence.
Side 148 - Difcoveries we have made sjatixnc. may at all times lie open to the Review of the Mind ; or where we mean to communicate and unfold the Difcoveries to others, there are two Ways of proceeding equally within our Choice.