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 234
... thousands of them have at once been led to Battle , armed with various Weapons , and taught to exercife their Trunks with a mischievous Dexterity . They were very useful alfo in throwing down Trees , Houfes , Walls , or whatever ...
... thousands of them have at once been led to Battle , armed with various Weapons , and taught to exercife their Trunks with a mischievous Dexterity . They were very useful alfo in throwing down Trees , Houfes , Walls , or whatever ...
Side 235
... every Year for the Use of Man ! How many thousands of poor People are employed in fcouring , carding , combing , and spinning it ? How many more in weaving je . it into Cloths , or Stuffs , or Stockings ? Natural HISTORY . 235.
... every Year for the Use of Man ! How many thousands of poor People are employed in fcouring , carding , combing , and spinning it ? How many more in weaving je . it into Cloths , or Stuffs , or Stockings ? Natural HISTORY . 235.
Side 245
... thousand other Circumftances lead him to com- bine agreeable , or difagreeable Sets of Ideas , or represent to him Objects in alluring or odious Lights . As his Views are enlarged , his Active and Social Powers ex- pand themselves in ...
... thousand other Circumftances lead him to com- bine agreeable , or difagreeable Sets of Ideas , or represent to him Objects in alluring or odious Lights . As his Views are enlarged , his Active and Social Powers ex- pand themselves in ...
Side 299
... all thofe pious Affections which depend on juft Sentiments of his Character , are awakened and confirmed ; and a thousand fuperftitious Fears , I Fears , that arife from partial Views of his Nature Moral PHILOSOPHY . 299.
... all thofe pious Affections which depend on juft Sentiments of his Character , are awakened and confirmed ; and a thousand fuperftitious Fears , I Fears , that arife from partial Views of his Nature Moral PHILOSOPHY . 299.
Side 311
... thousand nameless Graces and Decencies that flow from her Words and Actions , form him for a more mild and elegant Deportment . His Conversation and Example on the other hand , enlarge her Views , raise her Sentiments , fuftain her ...
... thousand nameless Graces and Decencies that flow from her Words and Actions , form him for a more mild and elegant Deportment . His Conversation and Example on the other hand , enlarge her Views , raise her Sentiments , fuftain her ...
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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.