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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Side 14
... fhew , how by a continued Addition or Re- petition , our more enlarged and complex Ideas are made up . Simple Ideas bave no Ad- miffion but by the proper In- Lets of Nature . IV . HAVING thus given a general View of our fimple Ideas , I ...
... fhew , how by a continued Addition or Re- petition , our more enlarged and complex Ideas are made up . Simple Ideas bave no Ad- miffion but by the proper In- Lets of Nature . IV . HAVING thus given a general View of our fimple Ideas , I ...
Side 37
... fhew how the feveral Fashions , Cuftoms , and Manners of one Nation , leading them to form many complex Notions , which come not fo naturally in the way of another ; different Sets of Ideas prevail in different Coun- tries , and of ...
... fhew how the feveral Fashions , Cuftoms , and Manners of one Nation , leading them to form many complex Notions , which come not fo naturally in the way of another ; different Sets of Ideas prevail in different Coun- tries , and of ...
Side 38
... fhew , the Original and Progress of our compound Ideas , and how the Mind is directed in the Choice of the Combinations it makes . We therefore proceed to the Confideration of abftract Ideas , which make the Subject of the following ...
... fhew , the Original and Progress of our compound Ideas , and how the Mind is directed in the Choice of the Combinations it makes . We therefore proceed to the Confideration of abftract Ideas , which make the Subject of the following ...
Side 44
... fhew the Reafon of my ranging them under diftin & t Heads . Ideas of Re- lations exceed- ing numerous . SECT . III . Of our Ideas of Relations . I. I COME now to the third and laft Divifion of those Ideas , which I confider as the ...
... fhew the Reafon of my ranging them under diftin & t Heads . Ideas of Re- lations exceed- ing numerous . SECT . III . Of our Ideas of Relations . I. I COME now to the third and laft Divifion of those Ideas , which I confider as the ...
Side 70
... fhew by what Rules it ought to proceed , in order to the Attainment of its proper End , To give therefore what Satisfaction we are able upon this Point , we must again call to mind , that the Defign of a De- finition is , fo to unfold ...
... fhew by what Rules it ought to proceed , in order to the Attainment of its proper End , To give therefore what Satisfaction we are able upon this Point , we must again call to mind , that the Defign of a De- finition is , fo to unfold ...
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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.