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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... 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 diftinct Notions of Things , and thereby avoid being misled by their ...
... 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 diftinct Notions of Things , and thereby avoid being misled by their ...
Side 14
... leaft Portions of either , whereof we can form a clear and diftinct Perception , as the fimple Ideas of that kind , out of which all their other Modes and Combinations are formed . Such an Inftant , or Point , may be conceived to be the ...
... leaft Portions of either , whereof we can form a clear and diftinct Perception , as the fimple Ideas of that kind , out of which all their other Modes and Combinations are formed . Such an Inftant , or Point , may be conceived to be the ...
Side 16
... leaft as far as our Knowledge reaches ) on any other created Beings . Such are the Ideas we have of Gold , Iron , Water , a Man , Sc . For if we fix upon any one of thefe , for inftance Gold , the Notion under which we reprefent it to ...
... leaft as far as our Knowledge reaches ) on any other created Beings . Such are the Ideas we have of Gold , Iron , Water , a Man , Sc . For if we fix upon any one of thefe , for inftance Gold , the Notion under which we reprefent it to ...
Side 21
... leaft Con- . nection between them ; and therefore it can never be fuppofed to refult from them . Wich , we oth ravife call . Spirits . IX . Tais then being evident , that Intelligence cannot arife from an Union or Combination of un ...
... leaft Con- . nection between them ; and therefore it can never be fuppofed to refult from them . Wich , we oth ravife call . Spirits . IX . Tais then being evident , that Intelligence cannot arife from an Union or Combination of un ...
Side 28
... leaft puzzle or con- found the Understanding . It is indeed amazing , that the Mind of Man , fo limited and narrow in its Views , fhould yet here feem to fhake off its natural Weaknets , and difcover a Capa- city of managing with Eafe ...
... leaft puzzle or con- found the Understanding . It is indeed amazing , that the Mind of Man , fo limited and narrow in its Views , fhould yet here feem to fhake off its natural Weaknets , and difcover a Capa- city of managing with Eafe ...
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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.