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, Volumen2R. and J. Dodsley, 1758 |
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... must eafe the View of the Mind , by taking them to Pieces , and fetting before it the feveral Portions feparately , one after another . By this leisurely Sur- vey , we are enabled to take in the whole , and if we can draw it into fuch ...
... must eafe the View of the Mind , by taking them to Pieces , and fetting before it the feveral Portions feparately , one after another . By this leisurely Sur- vey , we are enabled to take in the whole , and if we can draw it into fuch ...
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... must be diftinguifhed by particular Names , while at the fame time , the Notions of former Ages grow into Difufe , and the Words anfwering them are either wholly laid afide , or em- ployed in a Signification different from what they had ...
... must be diftinguifhed by particular Names , while at the fame time , the Notions of former Ages grow into Difufe , and the Words anfwering them are either wholly laid afide , or em- ployed in a Signification different from what they had ...
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... must allow , that the particular Combination of Properties , which conftitutes the Genus and Species , exifts in all the Individuals referred to that Genus or Species ; but then it is in Conjunction with other Properties , by which ...
... must allow , that the particular Combination of Properties , which conftitutes the Genus and Species , exifts in all the Individuals referred to that Genus or Species ; but then it is in Conjunction with other Properties , by which ...
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... must remain empty Sounds . But new Ideas of this Clafs occurring very rarely in the Sciences , they seldom create any great Obftruction . It is otherwife with our com- plex Notions ; for every Step we take , leading us into new ...
... must remain empty Sounds . But new Ideas of this Clafs occurring very rarely in the Sciences , they seldom create any great Obftruction . It is otherwife with our com- plex Notions ; for every Step we take , leading us into new ...
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... must confift of the Names by which they are expreffed . And if it fo happen , that the Ideas of this fecond Clafs are alfo unknown , their Terms too ought to be still farther defined . In this manner may a Series of Definitions be car ...
... must confift of the Names by which they are expreffed . And if it fo happen , that the Ideas of this fecond Clafs are alfo unknown , their Terms too ought to be still farther defined . In this manner may a Series of Definitions be car ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 530 - ... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 101 - Angles ; adds by way of Corollary, that all the three Angles of any one Triangle...
Página 105 - This Manner of determining the Relation between any two Ideas, by the Intervention of...
Página 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.
Página 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.