The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic. In Two PartsD. Schaw, 1801 - 462 páginas |
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... present temper of mind dictated , whether it were grave or pleasant , severe or smiling . If there has been any thing expressed with too much severity , I suspect it will be found to fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the age ...
... present temper of mind dictated , whether it were grave or pleasant , severe or smiling . If there has been any thing expressed with too much severity , I suspect it will be found to fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the age ...
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... present treatise , if it may assume the honour of that name , is made up of a variety of remarks and directions for the improvement of the mind in useful knowledge . It was collected from the observations which I had made on my own ...
... present treatise , if it may assume the honour of that name , is made up of a variety of remarks and directions for the improvement of the mind in useful knowledge . It was collected from the observations which I had made on my own ...
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... present temper of mind dictated , whether it were grave or pleasant , severe or smiling . If there has been any thing ex- pressed with too much severity , I suspect it will be found to fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the ...
... present temper of mind dictated , whether it were grave or pleasant , severe or smiling . If there has been any thing ex- pressed with too much severity , I suspect it will be found to fall upon those sneering or daring writers of the ...
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... present , and in following ages , may still find sufficient fol- lies , weaknesses , and dangers among mankind , to be represent- ed in such a manner as to guard youth against them . These hints , such as they are , I hope may be ...
... present , and in following ages , may still find sufficient fol- lies , weaknesses , and dangers among mankind , to be represent- ed in such a manner as to guard youth against them . These hints , such as they are , I hope may be ...
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... present knowledge , that you may be incited with labour and activity to pursue after greater measures . Among others you may find some such methods as these successful . 1. Take a wide survey now and then of the vast and un- limited ...
... present knowledge , that you may be incited with labour and activity to pursue after greater measures . Among others you may find some such methods as these successful . 1. Take a wide survey now and then of the vast and un- limited ...
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Página 422 - 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.
Página 435 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 92 - 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 439 - 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.
Página 51 - General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room ; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.
Página 438 - But when Christ, who is their life, shall appear, they also shall appear with him in glory.
Página 190 - The situation of the several parts of the earth are better learned by one day's conversing with a map or a sea-chart, than by merely reading the description of their situation a hundred times over in books of geography.
Página 33 - 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.
Página 260 - Get a distinct and comprehensive knowledge of the subject which you treat of ; survey it on all sides, and make yourself perfect master of it ; then you will have all the sentiments that relate to it in your view, and under your command, and your tongue will very easily clothe those ideas with words which your mind has first made so familiar and easy to itself. Scribendi recte sapere est et principium etfons, Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur.
Página 155 - 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.