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Side 30
... , had his un- derstanding been so employed . But it is as true , that he who cannot reason well to - day about one sort of matters , cannot at all reason to - day about others , though perhaps a year hence he may . 30.
... , had his un- derstanding been so employed . But it is as true , that he who cannot reason well to - day about one sort of matters , cannot at all reason to - day about others , though perhaps a year hence he may . 30.
Side 44
... derstanding in the search of truth and knowledge . To those who are willing to get rid of this great hinderance of knowledge , ( for to such only I write , ) to those who would shake off this great and dange- rous impostor prejudice ...
... derstanding in the search of truth and knowledge . To those who are willing to get rid of this great hinderance of knowledge , ( for to such only I write , ) to those who would shake off this great and dange- rous impostor prejudice ...
Side 70
... derstanding ; so there is often a partiality to studies , which is prejudicial also to knowledge and improve- ment . Those sciences which men are particularly versed in , they are apt to value and extol , as if that part of knowledge ...
... derstanding ; so there is often a partiality to studies , which is prejudicial also to knowledge and improve- ment . Those sciences which men are particularly versed in , they are apt to value and extol , as if that part of knowledge ...
Side 119
... derstanding one may most truly say , that its force is greater generally than it thinks , until it is put to it . Viresque acquirit eundo . And therefore the proper remedy here is but to set the mind to work , and apply the thoughts ...
... derstanding one may most truly say , that its force is greater generally than it thinks , until it is put to it . Viresque acquirit eundo . And therefore the proper remedy here is but to set the mind to work , and apply the thoughts ...
Side 132
... derstanding from being imposed on by the wilful , or at least undesigned sophistry , which creeps into most of the books of argument . They that write against their conviction , or that next to them , are resolved to maintain the tenets ...
... derstanding from being imposed on by the wilful , or at least undesigned sophistry , which creeps into most of the books of argument . They that write against their conviction , or that next to them , are resolved to maintain the tenets ...
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Side 20 - ... which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions. Some men are remarked for pleasantness in raillery; others for apologues and apposite diverting stories. This is apt to be taken for the effect of pure nature, and that the rather because it is not got by rules, and...
Side 87 - General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
Side 11 - We see but in part, and we know but in part, and therefore it is no wonder we conclude not right from our partial views. This might instruct the proudest esteemer of his own parts, how useful it is to talk and consult with others...
Side 34 - ... 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. For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration ; the connexion and dependence of ideas should be followed, till the mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms, and observes the coherence all along, though in proofs of probability one such train is not enough to settle the...
Side 6 - Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But in truth the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them, and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.
Side 85 - Such superficial ideas and observations as these he may collect in galloping over it; but the more useful observations of the soil, plants, animals, and inhabitants, with their several sorts and properties, must necessarily escape him; and it is seldom men ever discover the rich mines without some digging. Nature commonly lodges her treasure and jewels in rocky ground.
Side 22 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule : and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or strict reasoner, by a set of rules, shewing him wherein right reasoning consists.
Side 83 - Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge as before, let us believe any learned author as much as we will.
Side 33 - 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 19 - ... perfection. A middle-aged ploughman will scarce ever be brought to the carriage and language of a gentleman, though his body be as well proportioned, and his joints as supple, and his natural parts not any way inferior.