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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... Instruction by Lectures , Converfation , and Study compared , Chap . III . Rules relating to obfervation , 13 15 27 36 Chap . IV . Of Reading of Books , 41 Chap . V. Judgment of Books , 50 Chap . VI . Of living Inftructions and Lectures ...
... Instruction by Lectures , Converfation , and Study compared , Chap . III . Rules relating to obfervation , 13 15 27 36 Chap . IV . Of Reading of Books , 41 Chap . V. Judgment of Books , 50 Chap . VI . Of living Inftructions and Lectures ...
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... instruct you to think modestly of your present attainments , when every dust of the earth and every inch of empty space surmounts your understanding and triumphs over your presumption . Arithmo had been bred up to accounts all his life ...
... instruct you to think modestly of your present attainments , when every dust of the earth and every inch of empty space surmounts your understanding and triumphs over your presumption . Arithmo had been bred up to accounts all his life ...
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... instruction and go- vernment of them ? the Author of our rational powers can involve them in darkness when he pleases by a sudden distemper , or he can abandon them to wander into dark and foolish opinions when they are filled with a ...
... instruction and go- vernment of them ? the Author of our rational powers can involve them in darkness when he pleases by a sudden distemper , or he can abandon them to wander into dark and foolish opinions when they are filled with a ...
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... instruction by lectures , conversation , and meditation ; which last in a most peculiar manner is called study . · Let us survey the general definitions or descriptions of them all . * -I . OBSERVATION is the notice that we take of all ...
... instruction by lectures , conversation , and meditation ; which last in a most peculiar manner is called study . · Let us survey the general definitions or descriptions of them all . * -I . OBSERVATION is the notice that we take of all ...
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... instructions as are given by a teacher while the learners attend in silence . " This is the way of learning religion from the pulpit , or of philosophy or theology from the professor's chair , or of mathematics by a teacher shewing us ...
... instructions as are given by a teacher while the learners attend in silence . " This is the way of learning religion from the pulpit , or of philosophy or theology from the professor's chair , or of mathematics by a teacher shewing us ...
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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.