The Improvement of the Mind: To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and YouthEvert Duyckinck, no. 68 Water-street., 1819 - 425 Seiten |
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... give you a more sensible impression of the poverty of your understanding , and the imperfection of your knowledge . This will teach you what a vain thing it is to fancy that you know all things , and will in- struct you to think ...
... give you a more sensible impression of the poverty of your understanding , and the imperfection of your knowledge . This will teach you what a vain thing it is to fancy that you know all things , and will in- struct you to think ...
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... give it a wrong turn and ill habit of thinking , and make much work for retractation . Subito is car- ried away with title pages , so that he ventures to pronounce upon a large octavo at once , and to re- commend it wonderfully when he ...
... give it a wrong turn and ill habit of thinking , and make much work for retractation . Subito is car- ried away with title pages , so that he ventures to pronounce upon a large octavo at once , and to re- commend it wonderfully when he ...
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... give you more light into some deep subject in an hour , than you could obtain by a month of your own solitary labour . Think with yourself with how much ease the God of spirits can cast into your minds some useful sug- gestion , and give ...
... give you more light into some deep subject in an hour , than you could obtain by a month of your own solitary labour . Think with yourself with how much ease the God of spirits can cast into your minds some useful sug- gestion , and give ...
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... give us our first ideas of things , as it includes in it sense and conscious- ness . 2. All our knowledge derived from observation , whether it be of single ideas or of propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see ...
... give us our first ideas of things , as it includes in it sense and conscious- ness . 2. All our knowledge derived from observation , whether it be of single ideas or of propositions , is knowledge gotten at first hand . Hereby we see ...
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... give and receive this benefit ; as flints , when put into motion , and striking against each other , produce , living fire on both sides , which would never have arisen from the same hard ma- terials in a state of rest . 6. In generous ...
... give and receive this benefit ; as flints , when put into motion , and striking against each other , produce , living fire on both sides , which would never have arisen from the same hard ma- terials in a state of rest . 6. In generous ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 148 - 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 464 - I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
Seite 435 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Seite 11 - I've heard, from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing ? What have I done that's worth the doing ? What have I sought that I should shun ? What duty have I left undone ? Or into what new follies run ? These self-inquiries are the road That leads to virtue and to God.
Seite viii - ... his mind and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Seite 433 - 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 202 - Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed...
Seite 29 - ... of our own thoughts, that must form our judgment of things. Our own thoughts should join or disjoin these ideas in a proposition for ourselves: it is our own mind that must judge for ourselves concerning the agreement or disagreement of ideas, and form propositions of truth out of them. Reading and conversation may...
Seite xi - Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his Improvement of the Mind, of which the radical principles may, indeed, be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding ; but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work, in the highest degree, useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended.
Seite 433 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels ; not in the bought smile Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendeared, Casual fruition ; nor in court amours, Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenade, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain...