The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and YouthEdwards and Knibb, 1821 - 424 Seiten |
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... figure they will make in age . The witty men sometimes have sense enough to know their own foible ; and therefore they craftily shun the attacks of argument , or boldly pretend to despise and renounce them , because they are conscious ...
... figure they will make in age . The witty men sometimes have sense enough to know their own foible ; and therefore they craftily shun the attacks of argument , or boldly pretend to despise and renounce them , because they are conscious ...
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... figures and diagrams , point to the lines and angles , and make out the demonstration in a more intelligible manner by sensible means , which cannot so well be done by mere reading , even though we should have the same figures lying in ...
... figures and diagrams , point to the lines and angles , and make out the demonstration in a more intelligible manner by sensible means , which cannot so well be done by mere reading , even though we should have the same figures lying in ...
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... figures in painting ; the deaf will prate of discords in music ; and those who have no- thing to do with religion will arraign the best treatise on divine subjects , though they do not understand the very language of the Scripture , nor ...
... figures in painting ; the deaf will prate of discords in music ; and those who have no- thing to do with religion will arraign the best treatise on divine subjects , though they do not understand the very language of the Scripture , nor ...
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... figure and por- traiture is such as none but Apelles could paint . Every poor low genius may cavil at what the richest and the no- blest hath performed ; but it is a sign of envy and malice , added to the littleness and poverty of ...
... figure and por- traiture is such as none but Apelles could paint . Every poor low genius may cavil at what the richest and the no- blest hath performed ; but it is a sign of envy and malice , added to the littleness and poverty of ...
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... figure , which are now used in scholastic disputations . II . The Socratical way is managed by questions and answers in such a manner as this , viz . If I would lead a person in the belief of a heaven or hell , or a future state of ...
... figure , which are now used in scholastic disputations . II . The Socratical way is managed by questions and answers in such a manner as this , viz . If I would lead a person in the belief of a heaven or hell , or a future state of ...
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Seite 128 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Seite 68 - What shall we say then ? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein...
Seite 376 - Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Seite 401 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Seite 379 - Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Seite 388 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Seite 392 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Seite 76 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Seite 408 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that, is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Seite 17 - Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.