A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Volumen1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 510 páginas |
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... sort of men does he form ? Such as are learnedly absurd and stupidly proud ( 6 ) . With regard to stupidity , I have already said it is of two sorts , one natural , the other acquired ; the one the effect of ignorance , the other of ...
... sort of men does he form ? Such as are learnedly absurd and stupidly proud ( 6 ) . With regard to stupidity , I have already said it is of two sorts , one natural , the other acquired ; the one the effect of ignorance , the other of ...
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... sort are incapable of attention hence proceeds disgust and it is in France especially that this sort of men are the most common . I passed ten years at Paris ; the spirit of bigotry and fanaticism was not then predominant there . If I ...
... sort are incapable of attention hence proceeds disgust and it is in France especially that this sort of men are the most common . I passed ten years at Paris ; the spirit of bigotry and fanaticism was not then predominant there . If I ...
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... sort are very common , especi- ally in early youth . A child commits a fault , and for punishment is shut up by himself in a chamber . What does he do ? He sees in the window some pots with flowers , he plucks some of them , he ...
... sort are very common , especi- ally in early youth . A child commits a fault , and for punishment is shut up by himself in a chamber . What does he do ? He sees in the window some pots with flowers , he plucks some of them , he ...
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... sort of education is doubtless more uniform ; it is more the same . Two children are brought up under their parents , have the same preceptor , nearly the same objects before their eyes ; and read the same books . The inequality of age ...
... sort of education is doubtless more uniform ; it is more the same . Two children are brought up under their parents , have the same preceptor , nearly the same objects before their eyes ; and read the same books . The inequality of age ...
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... sort of attention to which he has afterwards owed the superiority of his understanding . A collegiate , or domestic education is therefore never the same for any two individuals . From the education of childhood we will proceed to that ...
... sort of attention to which he has afterwards owed the superiority of his understanding . A collegiate , or domestic education is therefore never the same for any two individuals . From the education of childhood we will proceed to that ...
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Página 287 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Página 350 - Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain...
Página 95 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other ; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Página 151 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Página 215 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Página 373 - To limit the press is to insult the nation ; to prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Página 96 - ... of a celestial origin. Minds that are stupid and incapable of science, are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena : minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
Página 274 - Experience then proves that the character and spirit of a people change with the form of government ; and that a different government gives by-turns, to the same nation, a character noble or base, firm or fickle, courageous or cowardly.
Página 137 - ... the one quits the hut, and the other the den of his parents. The eagle, in like manner, drives away her young ones from the nest, the moment they have sufficient strength to dart upon their prey, and live without her aid. The bond that attaches children to their parents, and parents to their children, is less strong than is commonly imagined. A too great strength in this bond would be even fatal to societies. The...
Página 126 - Corporal sensibility is therefore the sole mover of man, [and] he is consequently susceptible . . . but of two sorts of pleasures and pains, the one are present bodily pains and pleasures, the other are the pains and pleasures of foresight or memory.