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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... fame in all . Nor is this Inequality of the Study of Logick . to be wholly afcribed to the original Make of Men's Minds , or the Difference of their natural Endow- ments . For if we look abroad into the several Nations of the World ...
... fame in all . Nor is this Inequality of the Study of Logick . to be wholly afcribed to the original Make of Men's Minds , or the Difference of their natural Endow- ments . For if we look abroad into the several Nations of the World ...
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... fame Time , from the fame Body ; yet these three Perceptions are as diftinct in themselves , as if they all proceeded from different Objects , or were exhi- bited to our Notice at different Times . We are therefore carefully to ...
... fame Time , from the fame Body ; yet these three Perceptions are as diftinct in themselves , as if they all proceeded from different Objects , or were exhi- bited to our Notice at different Times . We are therefore carefully to ...
Side 19
... fame common Subject , make up our complex Idea of Gold . The fame may be faid of all the other Species of corporeal Substances , as Lead , Glass , Water , & c . our Ideas of them being nothing else , but a Collection of the ordinary ...
... fame common Subject , make up our complex Idea of Gold . The fame may be faid of all the other Species of corporeal Substances , as Lead , Glass , Water , & c . our Ideas of them being nothing else , but a Collection of the ordinary ...
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... fame Substance , but are really diftinct Kinds of Substances , and serve as general Heads , under which to rank all the particular Beings besides those that fall within the Compass of our Know- ledge . For we having no Ways of ...
... fame Substance , but are really diftinct Kinds of Substances , and serve as general Heads , under which to rank all the particular Beings besides those that fall within the Compass of our Know- ledge . For we having no Ways of ...
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... fame Idea : at other times it brings together Ideas of dif- ferent Kinds , and in both ways finds infinite Scope and Variety . But that we may follow the natural Procedure of the Intellect , and trace it in its Advances from simple to ...
... fame Idea : at other times it brings together Ideas of dif- ferent Kinds , and in both ways finds infinite Scope and Variety . But that we may follow the natural Procedure of the Intellect , and trace it in its Advances from simple to ...
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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.