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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... side , and incline you to pass a low esteem on the most valuable objects . Whatsoever evil habit we indulge in practice , it will insensibly obtain a power over our under- standing , and betray us into many errors . Jocander is ready ...
... side , and incline you to pass a low esteem on the most valuable objects . Whatsoever evil habit we indulge in practice , it will insensibly obtain a power over our under- standing , and betray us into many errors . Jocander is ready ...
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... side . XVI . Offer up therefore your daily requests to God , the father of lights , that he would bless all your attempts and labours in reading , study , and conversation . Think with yourself how easily and how insensibly , by one ...
... side . XVI . Offer up therefore your daily requests to God , the father of lights , that he would bless all your attempts and labours in reading , study , and conversation . Think with yourself how easily and how insensibly , by one ...
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... side , as when a teacher and a learner meet and discourse together : but frequently the profit is mutual . Under this head of conversation we may also rank disputes of various kinds . V. Meditation or study includes all those exercises ...
... side , as when a teacher and a learner meet and discourse together : but frequently the profit is mutual . Under this head of conversation we may also rank disputes of various kinds . V. Meditation or study includes all those exercises ...
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... side of a matter , and do not extend our sight far and wide enough to reach every thing that has a connexion with the thing we talk of : we see but in part , and know but in part ; therefore it is no wonder we form not right conclusions ...
... side of a matter , and do not extend our sight far and wide enough to reach every thing that has a connexion with the thing we talk of : we see but in part , and know but in part ; therefore it is no wonder we form not right conclusions ...
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... side of it be turned to view , that a juster judgment may be framed . IX . To make conversation more valuable and useful , whether it be in a designed or accidental visit , among per- sons of the same or of different sexes , after the ...
... side of it be turned to view , that a juster judgment may be framed . IX . To make conversation more valuable and useful , whether it be in a designed or accidental visit , among per- sons of the same or of different sexes , after the ...
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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.