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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... Happiness . In framing many com- plex Ideas , the Mind is wholly at- tive , and proceeds by a voluntary Choice CHAP . IV . Of Ideas framed by the Mind . 1 I. JITHERTO we have confidered only , fuch Combinations of our fimple Ideas , as ...
... Happiness . In framing many com- plex Ideas , the Mind is wholly at- tive , and proceeds by a voluntary Choice CHAP . IV . Of Ideas framed by the Mind . 1 I. JITHERTO we have confidered only , fuch Combinations of our fimple Ideas , as ...
Side 45
... Happiness is near- ly connected with this Knowledge . When we confider Ob- jects merely in refpect of Existence , as either giving or re- ceiving it , we come by the Ideas of Caufe and Effect : Nor need I mention , how much the Welfare ...
... Happiness is near- ly connected with this Knowledge . When we confider Ob- jects merely in refpect of Existence , as either giving or re- ceiving it , we come by the Ideas of Caufe and Effect : Nor need I mention , how much the Welfare ...
Side 47
... Happiness or Mifery . Whence it is evident , that without an exact Knowledge of thefe Relations , we must wander on in Life with great Uncertainty , and may often plunge into Calamities and Misfortunes , by thofe very Purfuits , from ...
... Happiness or Mifery . Whence it is evident , that without an exact Knowledge of thefe Relations , we must wander on in Life with great Uncertainty , and may often plunge into Calamities and Misfortunes , by thofe very Purfuits , from ...
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... Happiness of Man . But where the Predicate is not neceflarily connected with the Idea of the Subject , unless upon fome Confideration diftinct from that Idea , there the Propofition is called conditional . The Reafon of the Name is ...
... Happiness of Man . But where the Predicate is not neceflarily connected with the Idea of the Subject , unless upon fome Confideration diftinct from that Idea , there the Propofition is called conditional . The Reafon of the Name is ...
Side 113
... Happiness , turn wholly upon this Article . Is it not the chief Employment of our feveral Courts of Judicature , to determine in particular Inftances , what is Law , Juftice , and Equity ? Of what Im- portance is it in many Cafes , to ...
... Happiness , turn wholly upon this Article . Is it not the chief Employment of our feveral Courts of Judicature , to determine in particular Inftances , what is Law , Juftice , and Equity ? Of what Im- portance is it in many Cafes , to ...
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abfolute Affections againſt alfo almoft alſo Aqua Regia arife becauſe befides beft Cafe called Caufe cife Clafs common Conclufion Confequences confider confiderable confifts Conftitution Connection Copula Courſe Creature Defire Demonftration difcern Difcoveries Difpofition diftinct diftinguish Divifion Duty eafy eſtabliſhed Exercife exift exprefs faid fame fecond feems felves ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fimple Ideas fince fingle firft firſt fmall fome fometimes Form ftand ftill fuch fufficient fuppofe furniſhed greateſt Happineſs Hence higheſt himſelf human Inftances Intereft itſelf juft kind Knowledge laft leaft lefs likewife Logicians manner meaſure Mind moft Moral moſt muft muſt Nature neceffarily neceffary Notions Number obferve Objects Occafions Order ourſelves Paffions pafs particular Perceptions Perfons Pleaſure poffible Power prefent Propofitions Purpoſe raiſed Reafon refpect reft refult reprefent rife Science Senfe Species Subject Syftem Syllogifms thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thouſand tion Truth Underſtanding univerfal uſeful Virtue whofe
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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 530 - 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 530 - ... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted.
Side 520 - 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 555 - ... 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 530 - 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.