The improvement of the mind, or A supplement to the art of logic. By I. Watts. Also his posthumous works, publ. by D. Jennings and P. Doddridge1801 |
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... degree useful and pleafing . Whoever has the care of inftructing others , may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended . " Dr. Johnson's Life of Dr. Watts . Whood pinx ! Mackenzie so Published by Lackington ...
... degree useful and pleafing . Whoever has the care of inftructing others , may be charged with deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended . " Dr. Johnson's Life of Dr. Watts . Whood pinx ! Mackenzie so Published by Lackington ...
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... them is derived . The work was compofed at different times , and by flow degrees . Now and then , indeed it spread itself in- to branches and leaves like a plant in April and advan- ced feven or eight pages in a week ; and a 3.
... them is derived . The work was compofed at different times , and by flow degrees . Now and then , indeed it spread itself in- to branches and leaves like a plant in April and advan- ced feven or eight pages in a week ; and a 3.
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... degrees reduced to fomething like a method , fuch as the fubject would admit . On these accounts it is not to be expected that the fame accurate order should be observed either in the whole bock , or in the particular chapters thereof ...
... degrees reduced to fomething like a method , fuch as the fubject would admit . On these accounts it is not to be expected that the fame accurate order should be observed either in the whole bock , or in the particular chapters thereof ...
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... degrees of liberty and reftraint therein , & c . Of all which I had once defigned a more complete treatife ; but my ... degree of health , will be put to the prefs , when the favourable acceptance of this first part hall give fufficient ...
... degrees of liberty and reftraint therein , & c . Of all which I had once defigned a more complete treatife ; but my ... degree of health , will be put to the prefs , when the favourable acceptance of this first part hall give fufficient ...
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... degree of skill , and this is not to be done well without thinking and reasoning about them . The common duties and benefits of society , which belong to every man living , as we are social creatures , and even our native and ne ...
... degree of skill , and this is not to be done well without thinking and reasoning about them . The common duties and benefits of society , which belong to every man living , as we are social creatures , and even our native and ne ...
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Página 78 - 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.
Página 71 - 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...
Página 343 - 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.
Página 75 - Observe this rule in general; whensoever it lies in your power to lead the conversation, let it be directed to some profitable point of knowledge or practice, so far as may be done with decency; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered to run loose without aim or design : and when a subject is started, pass not hastily to another, before you have brought the present theme or discourse to some tolerable issue, or a joint consent to drop it.
Página 135 - ... with certainty. It is most probable that those very fibres, pores, or traces of the brain, which assist at the first idea or perception of any object, are the same which assist also at the recollection of it...
Página 80 - Banish utterly out of all conversation, and especially out of all learned and intellectual conference, every thing that tends to provoke passion or raise a fire in the blood. Let no sharp language, no noisy exclamation, no sarcasms or biting jests be heard among you ; no perverse or invidious consequences be drawn from each other's opinions, and imputed to the person...
Página 145 - Sounds which address the ear are lost and die In one short hour ; but that which strikes the eye Lives long upon the mind; the faithful sight Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.
Página 238 - Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Página 20 - Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge ; and let no day, if possible, pass away without some intellectual gain; such a course, well pursued, must certainlv advance us in useful knowledge.
Página 26 - 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.