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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... Objects ; we have Powers and Faculties fitted to deal with them , and are hap- py or miferable in proportion as we know how to frame a right Judgment of Things , and fhape our Actions agreeably to the Circumstances in which we are ...
... Objects ; we have Powers and Faculties fitted to deal with them , and are hap- py or miferable in proportion as we know how to frame a right Judgment of Things , and fhape our Actions agreeably to the Circumstances in which we are ...
Side 3
... Objects , which acting diffe- rently upon our Senfes , convey diftinct Impreffions into the Mind , and thereby rouse ... Object acting upon it , whereby it becomes fenfible of the Impreffions they make , is called by Logicians ...
... Objects , which acting diffe- rently upon our Senfes , convey diftinct Impreffions into the Mind , and thereby rouse ... Object acting upon it , whereby it becomes fenfible of the Impreffions they make , is called by Logicians ...
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... Objects . This Accuracy of Diftin- guifhing , where there is any the leaft Difference , is in a peculiar Manner neceflary in a Treatife of Logick , as it is the profefied Defign of that Science , to teach us how to form clear and ...
... Objects . This Accuracy of Diftin- guifhing , where there is any the leaft Difference , is in a peculiar Manner neceflary in a Treatife of Logick , as it is the profefied Defign of that Science , to teach us how to form clear and ...
Side 9
... Objects , that diftinct Notices are thereby conveyed into the Understand- ing , and that we are confcious of their being there . This Attention of the Mind to the Objects acting upon it , is what we call fimple Apprehenfion , and is in ...
... Objects , that diftinct Notices are thereby conveyed into the Understand- ing , and that we are confcious of their being there . This Attention of the Mind to the Objects acting upon it , is what we call fimple Apprehenfion , and is in ...
Side 10
... Objects that first pro- duced them are removed . Now our Ideas are nothing else but thefe renewed Reprefentations of what we have at any time perceived and felt , by means of which , things are again brought under the View of the Mind ...
... Objects that first pro- duced them are removed . Now our Ideas are nothing else but thefe renewed Reprefentations of what we have at any time perceived and felt , by means of which , things are again brought under the View of the Mind ...
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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.