The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic. In Two PartsD. Schaw, 1801 - 462 páginas |
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... XVIII . Of determining a Question , 192 Chap . XIX . Of inquiring into Causes and Effects , 21I Chap . XX . Of the Sciences , and their Use in particular Professions , 214 A 55156 PART SECOND . COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . Preface ,
... XVIII . Of determining a Question , 192 Chap . XIX . Of inquiring into Causes and Effects , 21I Chap . XX . Of the Sciences , and their Use in particular Professions , 214 A 55156 PART SECOND . COMMUNICATION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE . Preface ,
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... questions and dif- ficulties there are belonging even to that particular science you have made the greatest progress , and how few of them there are in which you have arrived at a final and undoubted certainty ; excepting only those ...
... questions and dif- ficulties there are belonging even to that particular science you have made the greatest progress , and how few of them there are in which you have arrived at a final and undoubted certainty ; excepting only those ...
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... question , that he was afraid to say it was an impossible thing . It is some good degree of improvement when we are afraid to be positive . 4. Read the accounts of those vast treasures of know- ledge which some of the dead have ...
... question , that he was afraid to say it was an impossible thing . It is some good degree of improvement when we are afraid to be positive . 4. Read the accounts of those vast treasures of know- ledge which some of the dead have ...
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... question , whether wit or study makes the best poet , may well be applied to every sort of learning- Ego nec studium sine divite vena , Nec rude quid possit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . Thus ...
... question , whether wit or study makes the best poet , may well be applied to every sort of learning- Ego nec studium sine divite vena , Nec rude quid possit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . Thus ...
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... question arise in our thoughts which the author has not happened to mention , we must be content without a present answer or solution of it . Books cannot speak . 3. Not only the doubts which arise in the mind upon any subject of ...
... question arise in our thoughts which the author has not happened to mention , we must be content without a present answer or solution of it . Books cannot speak . 3. Not only the doubts which arise in the mind upon any subject of ...
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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.